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> Did people actually used to believe places like Reddit or Twitter were "healthy good places" to spend your time? If you never curated your reddit experience,

> Did people actually used to believe places like Reddit or Twitter were "healthy good places" to spend your time? If you never curated your reddit experience, I could see how you might have this attitude. I won't deny that /r/popular and /r/all are rage inducing dumpster fires. But if you create an account and join subreddits, just going to https://www.reddit.com/ https://www.reddit.com/ takes you to a selection just from those subreddits. And there are a large number of wholesome, nurturing, even useful subreddits. In some respects, it is like Usenet used to be. > never all that beneficial. Google would disagree, after the recent blackouts. There's a lot of useful information going on in various subreddits - to the point that some posts on specific topics compete for stack answers in search rankings! Hell, I've found more useful Common Lisp resources in the Lisp subreddits than I ever found on HN, and better solutions to (some) problems than on stack.

gochi 3y ago
I have curated my experience. Including tiny subs dedicated to niches. I still don't see it as a healthy good place to spend my time. What's worse, is the platform encourages these subs to spread, become unmaintainable to the core moderation group, and eventually becomes yet another dumpster fire. Everyone always loves to believe their sub won't change. Why are we bothering wasting resources on reddit, when what we actually want is a maintained wiki page? >Google would disagree Only because Google has ignored their search engine problem for years before Reddit existed, and sees absolutely no problem in promoting the most random of sites as long as the content technically exists on the page. At this point, I'm not sure they want to solve the problem, due to the revenue gained by encouraging prioritized ad placements. Don't even get me started on the absurd levels of misinformation. Not even related to politics, it's everything. The posturing as experts when they're 15 year olds. The encouraging of buying this over that, without letting others know they work for that company. So much of the "useful information" on reddit is misjudged that way because of the pseudo-anonymous structure that encourages people to turn off their brain and believe everything they read. By the way this isn't an argument in support of non-anonymous platforms, only that the way people interact with Reddit is quite harmful and not sure many recognize that.
- Tijdreiziger 3y ago
  > Why are we bothering wasting resources on reddit, when what we actually want is a maintained wiki page? People don't want a dry wiki page. People want to discuss and share their experiences, hence the popularity of Reddit and Discord.

gochi 3y ago

I have curated my experience. Including tiny subs dedicated to niches. I still don't see it as a healthy good place to spend my time. What's worse, is the platform encourages these subs to spread, become unmaintainable to the core moderation group, and eventually becomes yet another dumpster fire. Everyone always loves to believe their sub won't change. Why are we bothering wasting resources on reddit, when what we actually want is a maintained wiki page? >Google would disagree Only because Google has ignored their search engine problem for years before Reddit existed, and sees absolutely no problem in promoting the most random of sites as long as the content technically exists on the page. At this point, I'm not sure they want to solve the problem, due to the revenue gained by encouraging prioritized ad placements. Don't even get me started on the absurd levels of misinformation. Not even related to politics, it's everything. The posturing as experts when they're 15 year olds. The encouraging of buying this over that, without letting others know they work for that company. So much of the "useful information" on reddit is misjudged that way because of the pseudo-anonymous structure that encourages people to turn off their brain and believe everything they read. By the way this isn't an argument in support of non-anonymous platforms, only that the way people interact with Reddit is quite harmful and not sure many recognize that.

Tijdreiziger 3y ago
> Why are we bothering wasting resources on reddit, when what we actually want is a maintained wiki page? People don't want a dry wiki page. People want to discuss and share their experiences, hence the popularity of Reddit and Discord.