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Further, reddit is built from the ground up to force consensus. Counterculture cannot exist on the site by definition, as anything prevalent on the site is the

• throwaway0a5e 6y ago
  So is HN and any other platform with where upvote/downvote is the primary factor in the algorithm.
• juststeve 6y ago
  Agree - and People should also be aware who funds these sites. Especially reddit.
• monocasa 6y ago
  I'd argue that the way reddit is currently designed is to hold on to it's user base without them having consensus. The way that subreddits allow separation of their user base (but they're all still users and seeing ads, buying gold, etc) allows communities to exist in a way other social media sites don't really allow (except maybe facebook groups).
• krapp 6y ago
  >Counterculture cannot exist on the site by definition, as anything prevalent on the site is there by consensus. That makes no sense - consensus must exist within a counterculture for it to be definable, therefore counterculture and consensus can coexist. Being "prevalent" has no bearing whatsoever on being a counterculture. It's entirely possible for a counterculture to have a subreddit and not be prevalent. The vast majority of content on Reddit never even touches the frontpage. You could say that a counterculture can't exist on Reddit that runs counter to the platform's terms of service, and that might be true, but it's also conditional.