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Anecdotal feeling alert: I think some people won't need an alternate. I am just letting reddit go. I don't get enough value from it to care of it exists anymore
by libraryatnight 3y ago
Anecdotal feeling alert: I think some people won't need an alternate. I am just letting reddit go. I don't get enough value from it to care of it exists anymore. I let Twitter go after the free speech absolutists super sensitive filter flagged me for saying I hope Microsoft burns for what a nightmare they've made their os (trying to help a non savvy user use a local account), I did the automated appeal assuming context would clear the time honored practice of telling businesses to go to hell, when it didn't I just let it go. I'm not deleting that tweet just to participate in that trash hole.
Reddit was a convenient insomniac doom scroll. It can go.
- brodo 3y agoUsing less social media is probably a good idea in general. Plus HN and lobsters can replace the technical reddit communities.
- littlestymaar 3y agoHN is way too generalist to even replace /r/programming (I'd say that only ~25% of the main page is technical stuff), not even talking about subreddits dedicated to specific technologies.
- Gareth321 3y agoThis is a good take. I’m getting nothing out of Reddit. It’s time to touch some grass.
- dgb23 3y agoI never used Reddit the way you describe. I use it as a forum for niche interests and it’s decent for that. Similar to php based forums but it’s one login and plenty of participants.
- TheOtherHobbes 3y agoTech can go elsewhere. The niche interests can't. At least not as easily. The obvious competitor for those is still Facebook, but FB's algo is actively hostile to the long-list-of-active-forums UX that makes Reddit work so well.