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Because competitors exist

hombre_fatal 6y ago
Not really. And forcing all of your unwanted/toxic subreddits to Reddit clones only damns them from ever gaining traction. Take a look: https://voat.co/ https://voat.co/
- buboard 6y ago
  These sites rely on network effect, which become prominent after a certain threshold of users join the site. If they reach critical mass, they will suck in the rest of the extreme-right, then the republicans then slowly everyone, because people like controversy and will seek to go where they can have it. Reddit is clearly a leftwing site now in ways that it wasnt when it started (when libertarian was the dominant ethos). All their "common word" reddits, such as news, politics, technology science are purely leftist echo chambers by now. The few rightwing corners left are already isolated and ready to make the move. In fact they may even decide they should jump ship. What better time for /r/t_d to go somewhere else than now, when people's interest is intensely focused in elections and they can easily rally all their users to follow them. Wherever they go, more people of other persuasions will follow, because people love telling other people that they are wrong on the internet. The question is if those other competitors can stand the traffic and whether they give the features to moderators that reddit does.
  - sigotirandolas 6y ago
    T_d already split into an independent website four months ago.
- Scoundreller 6y ago
  Subreddits can be unwanted by Reddit, but otherwise non-toxic.
  - brirec 6y ago
    This is correct, but the toxic, racist, alt-right, pro-fascism posts covering the front pages of sites like voat and ruqqus make me and many others wholly uninterested in these sites. If someone wants to provide an alternative to reddit but they don’t want to moderate/censor content that makes people uncomfortable, Reddit becomes the lesser evil.
    - buboard 6y ago
      i never visit reddit's frontpage, i visit instead the individual subreddits that i frequent at. In fact i wonder why the frontpage exists. Voat would do a service to themselves if they removed the frontpage.
    - Spivak 6y ago
      Doesn't that mean that Reddit is doing a half decent job? If all that stuff was on Reddit (haha if...) wouldn't it turn you off of the site?
      - FeepingCreature 6y ago
        Right, but also it means that competition will always be at a severe handicap.
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gsich 6y ago
You mean 4chan/8ch?

Not really. And forcing all of your unwanted/toxic subreddits to Reddit clones only damns them from ever gaining traction. Take a look: https://voat.co/ https://voat.co/

buboard 6y ago
These sites rely on network effect, which become prominent after a certain threshold of users join the site. If they reach critical mass, they will suck in the rest of the extreme-right, then the republicans then slowly everyone, because people like controversy and will seek to go where they can have it. Reddit is clearly a leftwing site now in ways that it wasnt when it started (when libertarian was the dominant ethos). All their "common word" reddits, such as news, politics, technology science are purely leftist echo chambers by now. The few rightwing corners left are already isolated and ready to make the move. In fact they may even decide they should jump ship. What better time for /r/t_d to go somewhere else than now, when people's interest is intensely focused in elections and they can easily rally all their users to follow them. Wherever they go, more people of other persuasions will follow, because people love telling other people that they are wrong on the internet. The question is if those other competitors can stand the traffic and whether they give the features to moderators that reddit does.
- sigotirandolas 6y ago
  T_d already split into an independent website four months ago.
Scoundreller 6y ago
Subreddits can be unwanted by Reddit, but otherwise non-toxic.
- brirec 6y ago
  This is correct, but the toxic, racist, alt-right, pro-fascism posts covering the front pages of sites like voat and ruqqus make me and many others wholly uninterested in these sites. If someone wants to provide an alternative to reddit but they don’t want to moderate/censor content that makes people uncomfortable, Reddit becomes the lesser evil.
  - buboard 6y ago
    i never visit reddit's frontpage, i visit instead the individual subreddits that i frequent at. In fact i wonder why the frontpage exists. Voat would do a service to themselves if they removed the frontpage.
  - Spivak 6y ago
    Doesn't that mean that Reddit is doing a half decent job? If all that stuff was on Reddit (haha if...) wouldn't it turn you off of the site?
    - FeepingCreature 6y ago
      Right, but also it means that competition will always be at a severe handicap.
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gsich 6y ago

You mean 4chan/8ch?