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> the next thing hundreds of thousands of people are spending their workday reading and participating in. ...is that really a good thing? I recently abandoned
by georgieporgie 16y ago
> the next thing hundreds of thousands of people are spending their workday reading and participating in.
...is that really a good thing?
I recently abandoned Reddit because I realized that keeping abreast of memes wasn't helping me accomplish my goals in life. Also, the illusory superiority thing gets hard to take. At least on HN it's more restricted to start-up vs. big-co and open vs MS, which I can take in stride. :-)
- kn0thing 16y agoI always hoped /r/startups would take off as a complement to Hacker News, but I'm the first to admit this is my #2 destination after reddit (though sometimes its #1). Hacker News is the best kind of distraction because it feels productive. Mmmm... Hacker News...
- mkr-hn 16y agoThat reddit will never take off because "startup" is not a common a word outside the Silicon Valley social bubble. http://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/
- ryanwaggoner 16y agoI doubt that has anything to do with it.../r/startups has more subscribers than /r/Entrepreneur does... http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/ http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/
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- mkr-hn 16y agoA lot of reddits fizzle out. There's no mechanism that removes people from a reddit, so it could appear a reddit is lively if you only look at subscriber count. People post stories, but there's very little discussion. It looks like both reddits are dead.
- jedberg 16y agoWhile some of the discussion can be quite distracting, others can be quite productive. For example, if you're a web design person, you'll probably learn something from http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design