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> New user experience is very confusing. You have to learn a bunch of dorky sounding terminology right away (instance, fediverse/federated, etc), and there are
by davewritescode 3y ago
> New user experience is very confusing. You have to learn a bunch of dorky sounding terminology right away (instance, fediverse/federated, etc), and there are a whole bunch of instances to choose from, but none of them may be particularly appealing or relevant to you specifically.
For technical discussions, this is a feature not a bug. Having a small technical hurdle to get over before contributing is a filter when it comes to having technical conversations that aren’t immediately shit up by low effort content.
The somethingawful forums are STILL around despite not being relevant in popular internet culture for almost 2 decades. Paying a one time $10 fee to post kept out people who weren’t really interested in contributing to the conversation.
- csallen 3y agoReddit is a massive social website. The vast majority of the value of Reddit comes from the fact that it's humongous. A niche community that tries to filter out most people isn't a Reddit replacement.
- scarecrw 3y agoI think some people are talking past each other when referring to a "reddit replacement" by focusing on different aspects and even different eras of reddit. Speaking for myself, I would love to see some of the features reddit popularized be brought to a replacement. However, I'm not at all interested in a one-to-one replacement of reddit in its current form, especially if we take "current form" to mean what a typical user would experience joining the site today.
- davewritescode 3y agoYeah I think Reddit is different things to different people. I personally spent a lot of time in hobby subreddits and in my city's local subreddit which at times was really an amazing way to find out about all sorts of cool events. Personally, this post is peak Reddit to me https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1d9xh5/epic_of_the_brighton_tree_ninja/ https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1d9xh5/epic_of_the_...
- BeFlatXIII 3y agoPeople aren't asking for a replacement for all of reddit; they want to replace their favorite subreddits. Being niche is an advantage.
- aSockPuppeteer 3y agoAgree. It’s a nice barrier to entry . Like the fee to shop at bulk stores, expensive grocers, or professional certifications. I’m getting distracted less without Reddit and two notifications per day at a chosen time from email/slack/etc.
- deruta 3y agoHow is a fee for a certification "a nice barrier to entry"? I get an argument about funding the body in question, but the barrier thing?
- ang_cire 3y ago[dead]
- aSockPuppeteer 3y agoNot the fee for the certification but the recurring certification itself as a barrier for engineers to build something so buildings don’t fall apart for example.