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How do you use the site roughly? Maybe it’s optimised for another workflow that’s more mainstream?

• lawn 3y ago
  I follow subreddits related to topics I'm interested in and I scroll through posts looking for interesting things. I then read the post/click the link and read comments and maybe make a comment once in a while. I'd imagine that's quite mainstream, no? (Of course I use old.reddit or a third-party client.)
  • shigawire 3y ago
    I think they want you to use it like people use Instagram. Endless scrolling, endless engagement
    • Arkhaine_kupo 3y ago
      That used to be the case, but they heavily slowed down the site (back in the day the front page was different every hour, it now changes like once a day or so) What they want is lots of comments and little to no nfsw. Aka the metrics that are easy to sell to advertisers and to IPO with. You can see every action taken through the lense of "does it affect IPO price" and understand almost all their choices. And because it is so transparent, its almost offensive when you consider their entire moderation happens with free workforce. All the mods see 0 benefit from the increased traffic, increase polarization and stalled content refresh that the website pushes, they get more work, less tools and more abuse but the IPO price is gonna make the owners rich
• dr-detroit 3y ago
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