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It won’t matter unless there’s a better alternative. Reddit wasn’t the first popular forum online, and won’t be the last.
by parasubvert 6y ago
It won’t matter unless there’s a better alternative. Reddit wasn’t the first popular forum online, and won’t be the last.
- tjr225 6y agoI think of Reddit the platform that tried to make hosting a forum as easy as possible. Within that scope it’s awesome but it’s also so easy that it is just another cesspool.
- parasubvert 6y agoDecentralized servers with mods are probably the best way to manage s/n ratio. But even then... scale eventually ruins everything.
- chii 6y agojust like how digg.com fell (to reddit), so will reddit fall to the next thing. But the central problem remains - how do people who currently use reddit migrate but not nose their communities built up over the years?
- parasubvert 6y agoIf their community stays, they will stay. It’s the reason Facebook won’t die either. There are plenty of still good communities on Reddit, so I don’t expect a Digg-like exodus, which was due to a terrible redesign - you couldn’t even the use the site, so there was almost no choice but to leave. But also there are lots of ways for communities to setup their own decentralized server like Discourse (and some have). You only need a couple of motivated community members. Ultimately Reddit may just devolve into USEnet... flamewars and pornography. But that could take years, and the management will actively try to keep it humming.
- smaryjerry 6y agoRuqqus is one of the better Reddit clones in functionality and features and the thing is with community based pages people actually enjoy have less comments because your comment may be one of five, not just one in ten thousand.