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Reddit is in theory the same.. but it also is loaded with spam, in the form of ads paid to reddit. This is worse. Compare: FPGA group on USENET, very little s

Reddit is in theory the same.. but it also is loaded with spam, in the form of ads paid to reddit. This is worse. Compare: FPGA group on USENET, very little spam: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.arch.fpga https://groups.google.com/g/comp.arch.fpga Reddit, full page animated old-spice ads: https://www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/ https://www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/ Also as much as you dislike google groups, just compare the UI of the above two.. ugh.. of course there is old reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/FPGA/ https://old.reddit.com/r/FPGA/

Sohcahtoa82 4y ago
> full page animated old-spice ads This is what ad blockers are for. I don't see any ads on reddit.
- snapetom 4y ago
  Except that the majority of content there are posted from karma-farming bot aggregators. Reddit does the same thing digg did that got them killed - curate submissions, but they wisely didn't announce it. Reddit uses a combo of algos, mods, and other bots to promote this curated content and bury unwanted content on frontpage subs. Ad blockers unfortunately don't work on those.