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Agree there was a shift, and while it hadn’t occurred to me before, your timing makes sense. Reddit used to be that place where you had definitely “read it” fi

Agree there was a shift, and while it hadn’t occurred to me before, your timing makes sense. Reddit used to be that place where you had definitely “read it” first. Now, to your point, most subs that bubble via algo to all and popular are tumblogs (infinite image/meme scrollers), and posts come after it’s already been on IG and Facebook groups. I’d chalked this up to IG influence, but Tumblr diaspora makes as much sense, together with your hypothesized shift to pop engagement over niche quality. Still works that if you dump the subs that show up in all or popular, you can get back to text / long-text niche interests. Most seem to be slowing pace of posts and discussion replies though, so unclear how much longer that will last.

Traster 5y ago
Sorry, but I was on reddit atleast since 2008 and it was obvious even then that 80%+ of the redditors hadn't read the articles, the whole reason they were on reddit was to chat to other redditors, not to actually read the article. It's a different story now, where the whole conversation has turned meta though (people arguing obout whether people have or haven't read the article and what the behaviour of redditors says about society in general)
- Terretta 5y ago
  “redditor for 15 years“ here And yes, in a niche sub the idea was to discuss the post, and yes, just as in class or at the local book club, as reddit became more popular soon 80% didn’t read the assignment. We were talking about tumblrization though. I had intended to make a point about image “content” vs. post or article content, the thing the comments you’re talking about hang off of. Whether for comments or content, there had been more text. So. I’ve gone and looked it up. Here’s a picture of the home page from Dec 2005: - https://i.imgur.com/tsisrVy.jpg https://i.imgur.com/tsisrVy.jpg - https://web.archive.org/web/20060104090150/http://reddit.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20060104090150/http://reddit.com... No image thumbnails, no subs, and a lot more article upvotes than discussion comments. And of course, a post about “signal to noise ratio” and another about “the Flickrization of Yahoo”.

Traster 5y ago

Sorry, but I was on reddit atleast since 2008 and it was obvious even then that 80%+ of the redditors hadn't read the articles, the whole reason they were on reddit was to chat to other redditors, not to actually read the article. It's a different story now, where the whole conversation has turned meta though (people arguing obout whether people have or haven't read the article and what the behaviour of redditors says about society in general)

Terretta 5y ago
“redditor for 15 years“ here And yes, in a niche sub the idea was to discuss the post, and yes, just as in class or at the local book club, as reddit became more popular soon 80% didn’t read the assignment. We were talking about tumblrization though. I had intended to make a point about image “content” vs. post or article content, the thing the comments you’re talking about hang off of. Whether for comments or content, there had been more text. So. I’ve gone and looked it up. Here’s a picture of the home page from Dec 2005: - https://i.imgur.com/tsisrVy.jpg https://i.imgur.com/tsisrVy.jpg - https://web.archive.org/web/20060104090150/http://reddit.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20060104090150/http://reddit.com... No image thumbnails, no subs, and a lot more article upvotes than discussion comments. And of course, a post about “signal to noise ratio” and another about “the Flickrization of Yahoo”.