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Reddit isn't fun anymore. It's recycled stuff, heavily curated, things stay up a lot longer than they should, you can't even use vote counts to gauge popularit
by friend_and_foe 3y ago
Reddit isn't fun anymore.
It's recycled stuff, heavily curated, things stay up a lot longer than they should, you can't even use vote counts to gauge popularity of something, everything even remotely contentious gets manipulated to hell, substantiative discussion gets drowned out by low grade witticisms that aren't even witty, or dumb answers all to get a vote or two, that's if you ever even get a good answer to anything. And that's not even including the corporate problems such as this API thing and deliberate destruction of UX. The site sucks, the only reason anyone uses it is because you need critical mass to move communities. It will happen, and it can't come soon enough.
- indrora 3y agoDefinitely depends on where you look. I find that HN is similar to one of the slower subreddits. There's a handful of subreddits that I read regularly, most of which are quite slow. Most of the "Local" subreddits (e.g. /r/seattleWA, /r/Albuquerque, /r/houston) have their own flavor. On the other hand, places like /r/mechanicalkeyboards are fairly authoritative sources on their topics. Once you leave the "Defaults", you find a much less frantic and much higher signal to noise ratio.
- friend_and_foe 3y agoYeah, and I'm stuck in a couple of niche communities there because that's where they are, but even then the bleedover from elsewhere is suffocating. I was excited about federating community sites, but now I'm actually convinced that requiring an account for a particular community prevents drive by and low effort interaction. One site for all communities is a bad idea.