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> lay the groundwork for a more user-friendly alternative I personally want the Reddit of 10 years ago back... while accepting that this is fundamentally impos
by commandlinefan 3y ago
> lay the groundwork for a more user-friendly alternative
I personally want the Reddit of 10 years ago back... while accepting that this is fundamentally impossible. Reddit was originally mostly uncensored, unfiltered discussions between actual human beings and this is something that I view as a Fundamental Good, but that a majority of people view as evil and dangerous. Until a large majority of people actually believe that others saying what they're actually thinking and allowing anybody who wants to listen to do so, Reddit or anything like it can never work.
- nvr219 3y agoThe parts of Reddit where I hang out seem pretty uncensored and unfiltered… And I’ve been on Reddit for 11 years. It doesn’t feel like it’s gotten worse anyway.
- pydry 3y agoAs soon as a popularity threshold gets reached you start getting lazy corporate memes (I think I saw coke vs mentos with ludicrously high number of upvotes in a programming subreddit recently), power hungry abusive mods and comments sections that look suspiciously like a marketing agency bought a reddit vote machine gun. There are some exceptions which are run by some seriously underrated mods, but for some reason the exceptions seem to be protesting the loudest. If I were advance publications I'd be looking for somebody to fire.