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Reddit's design is what actively pushed me to Hacker News, the Risks Digest, and a healthy mix of paid news (WSJ, FT, Bloomberg, etc). The site is really being
by LeftHandPath 5y ago
Reddit's design is what actively pushed me to Hacker News, the Risks Digest, and a healthy mix of paid news (WSJ, FT, Bloomberg, etc). The site is really being redesigned to enable astroturfing and user manipulation on a commercial level. Ads are made to look like posts, and sometimes the posts themselves are just ads.
I've come to the opinion that it's impossible for any free social media platform to avoid this unless the people running it are doing it as an act of charity. If you want to make money, you either make users pay or you sell access to / information from the userbase itself.
- PostThisTooFast 5y agoReally? Hacker News is even worse. This POS site lets you type out an answer to something or a comment, only to reject it with "YOU'RE POSTING TOO FAST." Really? Anything beyond two comments an hour is "too fast?" Then why do you let us even bring up the commenting window and waste our time? FUCK YOU, HACKER NEWS.
- bserge 5y agoNot defending Reddit, but it's the same with Facebook, and have you seen the Google Search results in a "developed country"? First full screen on mobile is ads that look like search results. Thankfully there's a small "ad" in the corner that no one can see.