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Yeah, while I understand and appreciate this effort, Reddit is actually seems better without some of the giant default subs. It's more like it was 10 years ago.
by code_duck 3y ago
Yeah, while I understand and appreciate this effort, Reddit is actually seems better without some of the giant default subs. It's more like it was 10 years ago. The site has hardly been a ghost town over the past couple of days. Smaller more obscure subs are hitting the front page, which is interesting, and to me it illustrates that if the large ones were to shut down entirely, there'd be no shortage of content and other mods/communities happy to take their place.
- dale_glass 3y agoActually many smaller subreddits don't want to hit the front page. Reddit has different dynamics depending on where people are coming from. Small subreddits hitting the frontpage tends to be disruptive more than helpful by bringing in users that don't care about the local culture.
- code_duck 3y agoI didn't say all communities wanted to. I said it was interesting. Mainly my point is that it wouldn't be death for reddit if some of the largest subs went away entirely, along with the 'power mods' who control dozens of communities. I have no doubt that mods of some of the smaller news subs, for instance, would be happy to start getting offers for tens of thousands of dollars to promote various articles.