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If there was a cookie cutter reddit alternative and there was no content, would you use it? The network effects of reddit are a reasonably strong barrier of ent
by tiredyam 8y ago
If there was a cookie cutter reddit alternative and there was no content, would you use it? The network effects of reddit are a reasonably strong barrier of entry.
- j0057 8y agoFor a viable competitor to Reddit, you only need enough other users to fill a few pages worth of content, so the barrier of entry is much lower than if you wanted to outcompete something like Whatsapp. I mean, Hacker News has like 1% of the number of users that Reddit has, and it's already better.
- dondawest 8y ago>Hacker News has like 1% of the number of users that Reddit has, and it's already better. Exactly. I went on reddit for years until the redesign. Now I can’t stand that site. The reddit redesign is so astoundingly bad and nonfunctional it shocks me to this day.
- Bekwnn 8y agoThere's a simple browser extension to redirect to old.reddit.com. But I agree that if they ever remove that, I'll leave the site. The redesign is comically worse.
- michaelmrose 8y agoReddit has many many content specific communities. Hacker news is better but for a relatively narrower focus.
- jtriangle 8y agoYes, in fact there are several and I use them all. The network effect has a positive influence on curation but an often profoundly negative effect on conversation. The smaller reddit spinoffs tend to have users that are more passionate about the topic at hand, don't "shit post" as much and the comment threads aren't plagued by low-effort puns. A casual observation of this might have you believe that the engagement is low, but a closer examination often reveals that the conversations are much more on-topic.
- jkoberg 8y agoUsenet is the answer to the distributed discussion forum problem. We need to breathe life back into it.