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> I think most people that use reddit are using it for specific sub-reddits, not for memes or 'shitposting'. Perhaps. But the shear size of r/pic or r/jokes ma

> I think most people that use reddit are using it for specific sub-reddits, not for memes or 'shitposting'. Perhaps. But the shear size of r/pic or r/jokes makes me doubt that most people are there for "serious business". Yes, I understand that you can subscribe to many subreddits and that you can sub to r/jokes AND r/serious-topic-with-serious-people. I'm just skeptical. Reddit is trying to be for the masses. Most of the time people spend on their phone is to look at cat pictures. I'm not passing judgement necessarily. It's just what everyone I know does. They read news, check Facebook, and then pull up TikTok/Snapchat/Instagram and look at funny pictures. I still visit particular subreddits. I never visit the front page- not even "my" front page. I go to exactly whichever subreddit I want to read from at the moment. Maybe lots of people are using that way, but it's not what I see in my bubble. Again, I could be totally wrong.

jpsalm 6y ago
Do we really need to stare down our noses at people who just want to look at cat pictures?
- ragnese 6y ago
  > I'm not passing judgement necessarily. It's just what everyone I know does. I like funny pictures, too. My point is that there are better sites than Reddit for it. So if that's who they're trying to retain, they're screwing it up.
  - bstar77 6y ago
    You also need to take into account that Reddit and Imgur had a symbiotic relationship for this type of stuff for many years. Reddit has always had meme posts, but it was through imgur for the longest time. Those posts were often the start of our most enduring memes. More recently that whole scene has been dumbed down to the lowest common denominator set by Facebook and others.
    - Swizec 6y ago
      Imgur has become a surprisingly good source of curated twitter and news content lately. It’s where I first learned of the Beirut explosion for instance. Only the most salient news/tweet/insta screenshots make it to the top of usersub. It’s great
littlestymaar 6y ago
> Perhaps. But the shear size of r/pic or r/jokes makes me doubt that most people are there for "serious business". Reddit is really big, there are really different people there and and there are many different ways you can use it.
- ragnese 6y ago
  That's why I said "most". Is that incompatible with what you said?
selykg 6y ago
Aren't those subreddits default? Which would explain why so many people joined. I don't generally "join" any subreddits anymore. I create a multireddit and add subs to the multireddit. My joined subs is really small and are the subs I monitor regularly so I see them from the main page. Multireddits let me "subscribe" to less frequently visited subs without actually joining or being forced to see them. For instance, I have one for books, one for music, one for finance related subs, one for programming subs, one for humor, etc. Almost none of those contain subs that I'm subscribed to.
stjohnswarts 6y ago
If you curate your home page there it works pretty well. Turn off the popular subreddits that are the "default" and it works well enough. I mean it -is- free. I'm not sure why anyone would expect academic level journal topic curation from something as anarchic as reddit.

jpsalm 6y ago

Do we really need to stare down our noses at people who just want to look at cat pictures?

ragnese 6y ago
> I'm not passing judgement necessarily. It's just what everyone I know does. I like funny pictures, too. My point is that there are better sites than Reddit for it. So if that's who they're trying to retain, they're screwing it up.
- bstar77 6y ago
  You also need to take into account that Reddit and Imgur had a symbiotic relationship for this type of stuff for many years. Reddit has always had meme posts, but it was through imgur for the longest time. Those posts were often the start of our most enduring memes. More recently that whole scene has been dumbed down to the lowest common denominator set by Facebook and others.
  - Swizec 6y ago
    Imgur has become a surprisingly good source of curated twitter and news content lately. It’s where I first learned of the Beirut explosion for instance. Only the most salient news/tweet/insta screenshots make it to the top of usersub. It’s great

littlestymaar 6y ago

> Perhaps. But the shear size of r/pic or r/jokes makes me doubt that most people are there for "serious business". Reddit is really big, there are really different people there and and there are many different ways you can use it.

ragnese 6y ago
That's why I said "most". Is that incompatible with what you said?

selykg 6y ago

Aren't those subreddits default? Which would explain why so many people joined. I don't generally "join" any subreddits anymore. I create a multireddit and add subs to the multireddit. My joined subs is really small and are the subs I monitor regularly so I see them from the main page. Multireddits let me "subscribe" to less frequently visited subs without actually joining or being forced to see them. For instance, I have one for books, one for music, one for finance related subs, one for programming subs, one for humor, etc. Almost none of those contain subs that I'm subscribed to.

stjohnswarts 6y ago

If you curate your home page there it works pretty well. Turn off the popular subreddits that are the "default" and it works well enough. I mean it -is- free. I'm not sure why anyone would expect academic level journal topic curation from something as anarchic as reddit.