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> 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
by 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 agoNot 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 agoIf 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.