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Except I consider Reddit to be yet another example of a failed online community. You can always create smaller sub-communities with dedicated dictators (Facebo
by evgen 8y ago
Except I consider Reddit to be yet another example of a failed online community. You can always create smaller sub-communities with dedicated dictators (Facebook calls them 'groups') but Reddit as a whole fails at this task as the history of the front page has clearly shown. I still remember back when there was just one Reddit and not sub-Reddits, and the events that led to the change. Fracturing into sub-communities is an answer only if you decide to avoid the question of community in the first place, or in the case of Reddit to re-define it into something much smaller.
The fact that these smaller communities with a narrow focus work while the larger ones fail is proof positive that tools are not the solution.
- Karunamon 8y agoYou have an odd definition of "fail" when these large communities have hundreds of thousands, if not millions of users every day.
- stale2002 8y agoHaving one super community is not going to be desirable. And Im not talking about the internet. Im talking about groups of people in general. Different people have different interests and it is perfectly fine for them to segregate themselves by choice into like-minded groups. I would perhaps argue that this is the entire POINT of a community. To pick and choose who you want to interact with.