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Or I could just go follow different groups I care about on Reddit. I don’t really care that much what Karen from high school thinks of her morning latte and spe

Or I could just go follow different groups I care about on Reddit. I don’t really care that much what Karen from high school thinks of her morning latte and spending the time to improve my feed is just not worth it to me.

PragmaticPulp 5y ago
> I don’t really care that much what Karen from high school thinks of her morning latte and spending the time to improve my feed is just not worth it to me. If you're not interested in content from people in your social network, then I don't understand what you're expecting to get out of a social network anyway. Facebook isn't a bad way to keep up with friends and family, but if you don't like your friends on any platform then you're probably not going to have a good time. In other words: You're not their target customer. As with any business, trying to extrapolate your own use case on to the general public is going to be very misleading.
- IgorPartola 5y ago
  I have meaningful conversation with people on other social networks. Discord, Instagram, Twitter, even TikTok. Facebook is the exception: it throws content at me that I explicitly don’t want and as its user base ages the content becomes less and less interesting. Topic-based groups are good but other networks simply do them better. And the idea of keeping up with what Karen from high school is doing isn’t all that fun at least to me.
elpakal 5y ago
I am not on FB but I use Reddit and I’m a little worried about how they will try to monetize when they go public. I have a feeling eventually it will become unusable. I’ve been a Redditor for 10 years now and I really hope the marketing via outrage culture doesn’t make its way there but I feel like it’s only natural.
- SantalBlush 5y ago
  I suspect the small subreddits will be useful well into the future, while the major subs and the front page will become increasingly terrible.
- pouting 5y ago
  > I have a feeling eventually it will become unusable. > I really hope the marketing via outrage culture doesn’t make its way there... Reddit has been unusable for at least the past five years owing to how they tailor the homepage and r/all to be a wasteland of outrage designed to keep users seething at others. It's basically become the two minutes hate.
  - baq 5y ago
    r/all has never been usable if you didn’t unsubscribe from default subreddits.

PragmaticPulp 5y ago

> I don’t really care that much what Karen from high school thinks of her morning latte and spending the time to improve my feed is just not worth it to me. If you're not interested in content from people in your social network, then I don't understand what you're expecting to get out of a social network anyway. Facebook isn't a bad way to keep up with friends and family, but if you don't like your friends on any platform then you're probably not going to have a good time. In other words: You're not their target customer. As with any business, trying to extrapolate your own use case on to the general public is going to be very misleading.

IgorPartola 5y ago
I have meaningful conversation with people on other social networks. Discord, Instagram, Twitter, even TikTok. Facebook is the exception: it throws content at me that I explicitly don’t want and as its user base ages the content becomes less and less interesting. Topic-based groups are good but other networks simply do them better. And the idea of keeping up with what Karen from high school is doing isn’t all that fun at least to me.

elpakal 5y ago

I am not on FB but I use Reddit and I’m a little worried about how they will try to monetize when they go public. I have a feeling eventually it will become unusable. I’ve been a Redditor for 10 years now and I really hope the marketing via outrage culture doesn’t make its way there but I feel like it’s only natural.

SantalBlush 5y ago
I suspect the small subreddits will be useful well into the future, while the major subs and the front page will become increasingly terrible.
pouting 5y ago
> I have a feeling eventually it will become unusable. > I really hope the marketing via outrage culture doesn’t make its way there... Reddit has been unusable for at least the past five years owing to how they tailor the homepage and r/all to be a wasteland of outrage designed to keep users seething at others. It's basically become the two minutes hate.
- baq 5y ago
  r/all has never been usable if you didn’t unsubscribe from default subreddits.