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Counter point: reddit They literally send you away to read the article, but with the hope you come back to add comments. In the case of the new twitter, it ma
by dorfsmay 3y ago
Counter point: reddit
They literally send you away to read the article, but with the hope you come back to add comments.
In the case of the new twitter, it makes sense to prevent people from leaving the platform, since Musk wants his platform to replace everything, blogs (hence new unlimited size tweets), YouTube (unlimited length video) and he even talked about a currency.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/26/23808796/elon-musks-x-everything-app-vision https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/26/23808796/elon-musks-x-eve...
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- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoDo people really read the article? It's a meme that nobody reads the article. Did you read this article? I didn't.
- xwdv 3y agoI don’t read most articles. And most articles posted on HN have famously low read rates of probably sub 1%. I read comments. Comments are the last bastion of pure ideas exchange, articles are just pretty conversation starters.
- ddq 3y agoThat was my internet philosophy for a very long time, but for a multitude of reasons I see predominantly noise instead of signal in comment areas I used to enjoy and few better alternatives. I’m now trying to counteract my habits and focus more on the information.
- nostromo 3y agoThis is a very dated view of Reddit. I just visited Reddit in incognito mode. Of the top 20 posts, 3 were links to articles. Most were images, videos, or text posts -- very similar to Twitter.
- dorfsmay 3y agoThe way to use reddit is to use https://old.reddit.com https://old.reddit.com AND unsubscribe from everything + subscribe to the specific subreddits you are interested in.
- xeromal 3y agoThat's the power user route but we're address the business model of reddit which is slowly inhousing all content.
- piaste 3y agoCounter-counter point: for years Reddit has been pushing for fewer article links and more locally hosted content. They started hosting their own images, then their own videos. This is expensive to do, but perhaps they felt that it was worth it to keep users on their site instead of risking them wandering off to Imgur. And the new design discourages actually reading the article. When you click on a "link", it sends you to the comment page which has a small embedded thumbnail and blurb. (The old design took you to the article directly).
- joelfried 3y agoCounter-counter-counter point: Reddit reached its heyday under the leadership that allowed people to leave and come back to discuss. Its current leadership has intentionally driven away a decent percentage of users within the last year. I do not think their decisions come from sound thinking but greed. They don't truly understand why they got big and now they're trying to squeeze all the money out of it they can before their luck runs out. I think they did much better trying to give their users a good experience and they are in the process of killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. It just takes a long time for a zombie social network to die.
- CoastalCoder 3y ago> Counter-counter-counter point (tangent) Does this remind anyone else of Melissa Peterson from Seattle, WA? [0] https://www.wnyc.org/story/1421-my-dog-hates-you-too/ https://www.wnyc.org/story/1421-my-dog-hates-you-too/
- geerlingguy 3y agoYeah, there are a larger number of communities that outright ban link posts now, and others which have a pretty strict guideline against any articles (labeling them as 'blogspam' or 'self-promotion' even when something is not... it's a tough job though because spam is incredibly frequent now).
- thih9 3y agoNote that most popular content on reddit is images, short video clips or plaintext; and the majority of that is hosted on their servers.