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I think you're right on the mark. Reddit doesn't want the old users who used it like an internet forum. Reddit wants to be another Instagram, TikTok, etc. As a

I think you're right on the mark. Reddit doesn't want the old users who used it like an internet forum. Reddit wants to be another Instagram, TikTok, etc. As a business it's the "right" choice and the only way to make their investors money. It's a shame we're losing the biggest internet forum, but it's been on this trajectory for a long time anyway.

tedmiston 3y ago
> It's a shame we're losing the biggest internet forum, but it's been on this trajectory for a long time anyway. But that's what so great about reddit compared to the other big social media platforms: hard delineation by interest groups (subreddits). Instagram, and any others (AFAIK) do not have anything like this feature. It's all just a jumbled mess of user-to-user connections. I wouldn't say we're "losing the biggest internet forum" there. They can still make reddit more mainstream without old communities having to change much, right?
- jen20 3y ago
  Not really - the official clients constantly push content in which I (for one) have no interest, in the name of “engagement”. I won’t stand for it, and have just stopped using Reddit - mostly passively, but occasionally posting. Without a user-respective native client that follows system conventions and does not push garbage, the service is just not worth using.
  - tedmiston 3y ago
    > Not really - the official clients constantly push content in which I (for one) have no interest, in the name of “engagement”. Where are you getting that on reddit? I don't think I've ever seen content that's not normal posts in my subreddits. [Maybe it's been there the whole time but ad blocked away or something so I'm just never seeing it?] I don't use r/popular, r/news, r/all, etc much if they're doing something different there.
    - utucuro 3y ago
      If you don't follow a lot of subreddits, then they regularly pester you to follow some, or a stupid live stream of something or the other, or other similar stuff designed to increase "engagement". I hate engagement.
losteric 3y ago
Isn't explicit subreddit-level engagement and information organization incredibly valuable for targeting/monetization? imo, it like they're disorganizing the site to undermine and eventually cut out independent moderators, to avoid the business risk that is actively playing out.
taskforcegemini 3y ago
>It's a shame we're losing the biggest internet forum I'm looking forward to that. back in the day it was "normal" to have topic related forums/communities. walled-garden-groups on social media and centralized solutions like reddit killed those, because they were easier to set up and manage. but the community was no longer really owned by someone from that community.

tedmiston 3y ago

> It's a shame we're losing the biggest internet forum, but it's been on this trajectory for a long time anyway. But that's what so great about reddit compared to the other big social media platforms: hard delineation by interest groups (subreddits). Instagram, and any others (AFAIK) do not have anything like this feature. It's all just a jumbled mess of user-to-user connections. I wouldn't say we're "losing the biggest internet forum" there. They can still make reddit more mainstream without old communities having to change much, right?

jen20 3y ago
Not really - the official clients constantly push content in which I (for one) have no interest, in the name of “engagement”. I won’t stand for it, and have just stopped using Reddit - mostly passively, but occasionally posting. Without a user-respective native client that follows system conventions and does not push garbage, the service is just not worth using.
- tedmiston 3y ago
  > Not really - the official clients constantly push content in which I (for one) have no interest, in the name of “engagement”. Where are you getting that on reddit? I don't think I've ever seen content that's not normal posts in my subreddits. [Maybe it's been there the whole time but ad blocked away or something so I'm just never seeing it?] I don't use r/popular, r/news, r/all, etc much if they're doing something different there.
  - utucuro 3y ago
    If you don't follow a lot of subreddits, then they regularly pester you to follow some, or a stupid live stream of something or the other, or other similar stuff designed to increase "engagement". I hate engagement.

losteric 3y ago

Isn't explicit subreddit-level engagement and information organization incredibly valuable for targeting/monetization? imo, it like they're disorganizing the site to undermine and eventually cut out independent moderators, to avoid the business risk that is actively playing out.

taskforcegemini 3y ago

>It's a shame we're losing the biggest internet forum I'm looking forward to that. back in the day it was "normal" to have topic related forums/communities. walled-garden-groups on social media and centralized solutions like reddit killed those, because they were easier to set up and manage. but the community was no longer really owned by someone from that community.