Not at all. There's a few major differences: 1. The unit of "following" is a subreddit, not an individual account. This means that your feed might contain a lo

Not at all. There's a few major differences: 1. The unit of "following" is a subreddit, not an individual account. This means that your feed might contain a lot of content from a popular subreddit, but never of a single person. In fact, an account's karma on Reddit has no bearing on the reach of its posts. This lets me curate my feed based on the type of content, not based on who posted it and how many followers they have. 2. Because of (1), I have another option to the "front page": browsing a specific subreddit of my choice, where I see posts in basically the same order as everyone else. The closest that Twitter has to this is "Topics", but those are not communities, they are Twitter-curated feeds. You can't make a Topic, and you can't post to one. If your niche interest is not a Topic, you're out of luck, and most subreddits have no analogous Topic. Twitter lets you browse a user's posts, but individuals are high-variance. There's no way to say "show me all this person's tweets related to ML, which is why I followed, not when they talk about cooking." The only way around this is if the author has the prescience to make domain-specific alt accounts. 3. Downvotes. Twitter refuses to let you downvote content, which contributes to its toxicity. Whether you are retweeting to support or to criticize, the outcome is the same: you increase the post's reach. The most outrageous tweets get the most coverage. Reddit's downvote mechanism means that you can signal that a post is inappropriate for a subreddit, which means that the posts in a sub are more relevant to my interests. Twitter has no such option: popular accounts naturally have high reach by default, and the lack of negative signal means that they can only accumulate more reach. The only way to decrease an account's influence is through coordinated unfollowing campaigns, "cancelling" them. Cancel culture isn't really a thing on Reddit because it's not personality-driven.