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Hopefully the biker bar analogy* is correct. Every year it feels more and more like the bikers are actually the majority. *https://chuqui.com/2015/07/the-death

Hopefully the biker bar analogy* is correct. Every year it feels more and more like the bikers are actually the majority. *https://chuqui.com/2015/07/the-death-of-reddit/ https://chuqui.com/2015/07/the-death-of-reddit/

gdulli 10y ago
The saddest thing about the fact that Reddit hasn't been disrupted is what that says about the collective tolerance of what it is.
- aaronblohowiak 10y ago
  maybe we don't read the same subreddits, but /r/programming /r/woodworking and /r/personalfinance are all mostly cordial.
  - mundo 10y ago
    That's the thing about reddit - it's so big that you can find whatever you want. Whether you want polite discussion about woodworking, erotic fan-fiction, or examples of horrible racism and misogyny so you can write an article for HuffPoabout how horrible Reddit is, you will find what you're looking for. But I'm pretty sure that was true of the internet before Reddit came along, too. And I don't see how combining all of those discussion groups under the same domain made the world any worse than back when they were three separate message boards.
lmm 10y ago
Interesting to look back on this. Reddit seems to be doing fine now - it's put the line in a clear and simple place, and while there are occasional paranoid grumblings that certain subreddits are getting away with brigading it's mostly working out. Whereas Twitter - which seemed to follow a line closer to the one being advocated there - is a disaster area.
- petertodd 10y ago
  You sure twitter is a disaster area? I work in one of the most controversial crypo fields out there - Bitcoin - and other than blocking dozens of people my experience on twitter is fine. Or put another way, the blocking/filtering tools work and let me focus on people worth talking too. It's open discussion forums like reddit where my experience sucks; /r/btc is a trash fire.
- Girlang 10y ago
  No it hasn't. Why are anti-Obesity groups banned, but overtly racist groups with racist names allows? (Answer: Moderators are fat.)
- brennen 10y ago
  > Reddit seems to be doing fine now Hrm. I resisted this view for quite a while, but as far as I can tell in 2016 reddit is a pathological and destructive ocean of trash fire lunacy which incidentally hosts a few islands of relative sanity. Of course it's hard to generalize about any cultural venue at the scale of reddit. But it really seems to a lot of observers that the pathology has by far outstripped its prosocial functions.
  - CamperBob2 10y ago
    The model of Reddit as a multistory building with a basement is flawed from the outset. It's more like a building in n-dimensional hyperspace. No matter what room you're in, the doors that lead to every other room, as well as to the street outside, are never more than a footstep away. The same is true of the Web as a whole, at least until we allow governments and other special interests to start nailing various doors shut.
    - brennen 10y ago
      A building in n-dimensional hyperspace where a large group of violent assholes are on the other side of ~50% of all doors.
      - 10y ago

gdulli 10y ago

The saddest thing about the fact that Reddit hasn't been disrupted is what that says about the collective tolerance of what it is.

aaronblohowiak 10y ago
maybe we don't read the same subreddits, but /r/programming /r/woodworking and /r/personalfinance are all mostly cordial.
- mundo 10y ago
  That's the thing about reddit - it's so big that you can find whatever you want. Whether you want polite discussion about woodworking, erotic fan-fiction, or examples of horrible racism and misogyny so you can write an article for HuffPoabout how horrible Reddit is, you will find what you're looking for. But I'm pretty sure that was true of the internet before Reddit came along, too. And I don't see how combining all of those discussion groups under the same domain made the world any worse than back when they were three separate message boards.

lmm 10y ago

Interesting to look back on this. Reddit seems to be doing fine now - it's put the line in a clear and simple place, and while there are occasional paranoid grumblings that certain subreddits are getting away with brigading it's mostly working out. Whereas Twitter - which seemed to follow a line closer to the one being advocated there - is a disaster area.

petertodd 10y ago
You sure twitter is a disaster area? I work in one of the most controversial crypo fields out there - Bitcoin - and other than blocking dozens of people my experience on twitter is fine. Or put another way, the blocking/filtering tools work and let me focus on people worth talking too. It's open discussion forums like reddit where my experience sucks; /r/btc is a trash fire.
Girlang 10y ago
No it hasn't. Why are anti-Obesity groups banned, but overtly racist groups with racist names allows? (Answer: Moderators are fat.)
brennen 10y ago
> Reddit seems to be doing fine now Hrm. I resisted this view for quite a while, but as far as I can tell in 2016 reddit is a pathological and destructive ocean of trash fire lunacy which incidentally hosts a few islands of relative sanity. Of course it's hard to generalize about any cultural venue at the scale of reddit. But it really seems to a lot of observers that the pathology has by far outstripped its prosocial functions.
- CamperBob2 10y ago
  The model of Reddit as a multistory building with a basement is flawed from the outset. It's more like a building in n-dimensional hyperspace. No matter what room you're in, the doors that lead to every other room, as well as to the street outside, are never more than a footstep away. The same is true of the Web as a whole, at least until we allow governments and other special interests to start nailing various doors shut.
  - brennen 10y ago
    A building in n-dimensional hyperspace where a large group of violent assholes are on the other side of ~50% of all doors.
    - 10y ago