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If you're billing yourself as a "Reddit Alternative", you definitely care about mainstream appeal.
by matai_kolila 4y ago
If you're billing yourself as a "Reddit Alternative", you definitely care about mainstream appeal.
- rnd0 4y agoNot necessarily. Reddit itself changed to cater to a mainstream audience and by billing itself as an alternative the pitch isn't so much to folks who like the changes reddit made but to folks who think reddit was better "before september came". IE folks who want what they remember (right or wrong) as being a small, niche site that was ruined by chasing the mainstream.
- matai_kolila 4y agoThat's a very "snapshotted" view of Reddit, one that doesn't hold up to scrutiny once you consider what Reddit is today.
- rnd0 4y agoor even if you consider what went down on reddit "in the good old days" -yet, I think that's thew view of reddit (real or not) that they're trying to appeal to.
- matai_kolila 4y agoWithout specifying that, they’re at best doing a poor job of explaining what their technology does, but more likely they are trying to mainstream it.
- mariusor 4y agoIn my experience most of the people that want reddit alternatives can be split into two camps: those that want to be able to say naughty things unchecked by mods or admins, and those that want to go back to the "good ol' days" of early reddit. I belong to the later camp, and I suspect the grandfather post you're replying to does too.