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Reddit is a really, really, really good system for connecting people who have a niche interest. You can still do forums and so forth for those things, but disco

Reddit is a really, really, really good system for connecting people who have a niche interest. You can still do forums and so forth for those things, but discoverability isn't nearly as good. It's been co-opted by venture capital and is becoming less so, but right now it's a great community unmatched elsewhere on the internet in it's scale and quality.

TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
Reddit is a really good system for getting incredibly-niche oriented persons to subsume a subreddit, drive a bunch of engagement, yet suck all the usable air out of the channel, and make it next to impossible for a interested-but-casual user to meaningfully participate. Just like Twitter, the people who make the service their personality get to enjoy the network effects, and everyone else might as well be spitting in the wind.
- idiotsecant 3y ago
  What exactly are you advocating for here? People being less interested in things?
  - TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
    I think you know full well that I'm not advocating pEoPLE BeIng lESS iNTErESTEd in THiNGS. My idea would be to assign karma based on a logarithmic scale so that people with "just" an interest in the topic aren't immediately shoved to the bottom of the barrel by people with nothing but time to make the site their personality.
chx 3y ago
Benson Leung who is fairly well known for his USB C reviews is now a moderator of /r/UsbCHardware/ and through him I was able to fix a bug in the USB C specification. I have no idea how I would've done it without the connection Reddit provides. I posted the bugfix at https://superuser.com/a/1536688/41259 https://superuser.com/a/1536688/41259
AlchemistCamp 3y ago
Reddit wasn't "co-opted" by venture capital. It was built by venture capital! It literally started as a result of the founders taking money from YC and pivoting away from their original idea and to Reddit at Paul Graham's request. Hear the story here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steve-huffman-co-founder-ceo-of-reddit/id1677066062?i=1000610113899 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steve-huffman-co-found...
JohnFen 3y ago
It probably depends on the niche. I've found reddit occasionally useful for this, but the community on reddit tends to be a bit monolithic, so I've not found reddit useful as a sole, or primary, source of this sort of thing.

TheRealDunkirk 3y ago

Reddit is a really good system for getting incredibly-niche oriented persons to subsume a subreddit, drive a bunch of engagement, yet suck all the usable air out of the channel, and make it next to impossible for a interested-but-casual user to meaningfully participate. Just like Twitter, the people who make the service their personality get to enjoy the network effects, and everyone else might as well be spitting in the wind.

idiotsecant 3y ago
What exactly are you advocating for here? People being less interested in things?
- TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
  I think you know full well that I'm not advocating pEoPLE BeIng lESS iNTErESTEd in THiNGS. My idea would be to assign karma based on a logarithmic scale so that people with "just" an interest in the topic aren't immediately shoved to the bottom of the barrel by people with nothing but time to make the site their personality.

chx 3y ago

Benson Leung who is fairly well known for his USB C reviews is now a moderator of /r/UsbCHardware/ and through him I was able to fix a bug in the USB C specification. I have no idea how I would've done it without the connection Reddit provides. I posted the bugfix at https://superuser.com/a/1536688/41259 https://superuser.com/a/1536688/41259

AlchemistCamp 3y ago

Reddit wasn't "co-opted" by venture capital. It was built by venture capital! It literally started as a result of the founders taking money from YC and pivoting away from their original idea and to Reddit at Paul Graham's request. Hear the story here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steve-huffman-co-founder-ceo-of-reddit/id1677066062?i=1000610113899 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steve-huffman-co-found...

JohnFen 3y ago

It probably depends on the niche. I've found reddit occasionally useful for this, but the community on reddit tends to be a bit monolithic, so I've not found reddit useful as a sole, or primary, source of this sort of thing.