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Just out of curiosity, in that taxonomy how would you characterize Reddit?
by sfblah 5y ago
Just out of curiosity, in that taxonomy how would you characterize Reddit?
- thepasswordis 5y agoI try to avoid reddit.com/r/all and have my subreddits pared down to dogs, mechanical keyboards, tesla stuff, cryptocurrency, sailing, and locally-relevant things (city subs for the places I have homes). I'd say facebook is: older people sharing stuff about their life. Benign posts about traveling, maybe some light complaining about the neighborhood where they live getting too expensive, complaining about their job or sports or something like that etc. Twitter is: younger people who are angry at the world and looking for a scapegoat. Everything is "here's why $outgroup is the core of all the problems in the world in 240 characters or less". Absolutely psychologically abusive garbage. Reddit is like twitter, but more of an impotent rage. Lots of corporate pop culture references, but still with a strong dose of "here's why $outgroup is so bad!" Looking at some of the parenting subs I'm on, some of the top posts are prompts for people to explain how terrible things in the world are. Just really really toxic, awful things. If I had to guess why: facebook is relatively private. The only things I see are either from people choose to follow explicitly, or from a tier-2 follow like a group (which I can filter if the group starts veering into toxicity). Twitter is explicitly public. You see and interact with everything from everybody. There seems to be a strong ephasis on sharing other things from people I don't follow. Reddit is the worst. Completely public, I never followed any of these people. Ignoring/blocking individuals would have almost no effect.
- bryan_w 5y agoThis is kinda insightful to hear. Do you happen to have an Instagram? Would love to hear your thoughts on it.