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The social media race to the bottom is in full swing, and nobody is going to finish it feeling happy. In the end it's going to be a sad story for users and shar
by gary_0 3y ago
The social media race to the bottom is in full swing, and nobody is going to finish it feeling happy. In the end it's going to be a sad story for users and shareholders alike. The fruit is rotting on the vine.
- asdfman123 3y agoReddit got terrible years ago, around the time of the redesign. This is just a market correction.
- dobs_bob 3y agoIt was when they hired Ellen Pao for me
- lockhouse 3y agoI'd be happy if most social media went the way of MySpace and Digg.
- DoesntMatter22 3y agoDigg was pretty nice before the redesign killed it
- WheatMillington 3y agoPersonally I don't consider Reddit to be social media any more than I consider Hacker News to be.
- hk1337 3y agoIt’s definitely a lot more social media now than it was when it started or DiggV4 era.
- gary_0 3y agoIndeed. I would have had a much different opinion in 2013 (and to be fair, old.reddit plus uBlock gives you mostly the same experience), but Reddit as it exists now is definitely social media. (Note that most subreddit mods report that their traffic is ~80% New Reddit users.)
- HWR_14 3y agoDoes that statistic mean "new Reddit UI" users or "new accounts"?
- gary_0 3y agoReddit has roughly the same business model as Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok. Each of those sites are structured differently and come with different bells and whistles, but essentially they all just ingest user content, inject ads and tracking, and shove it in your face. Isn't that social media? HN, on the other hand, doesn't even have a business model of its own. It's a text-only discussion board running on a couple servers.
- The_Colonel 3y agoFor me "social" suggests that people use it to "socialize". Keep contact with old friends, find new ones etc. Reddit or Hacker News don't fit into that category for me. If we say that any website with user generated content is "social media", then half of the web is that and the term kind of loses meaning.
- arcanemachiner 3y agoI always thought the term "social news" covered it pretty well.
- iLoveOncall 3y agoUsers will end up being happier. They won't know it for a while but they will be. I don't know many people who have regretted leaving social media websites.
- Nasrudith 3y agoSounds like quite something with a high risk of selection bias. You wouldn't expect to hear from them either way.