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There's a lot of complaints here, the advice is decent but not magical. "Don't spend time and money on crap". Maybe the implication is "Do spend time and mone

• chihuahua 3y ago
  Right - Reddit exists, and I can make up my own mind on whether I want to use it, how much I want to use it, and whether I want to volunteer as an unpaid mod. I do not understand people who volunteer unpaid labor and then complain bitterly about it.
  • Scoundreller 3y ago
    It doesn’t pay well, unless you’re crooked. I’d be more worried about those that don’t complain.
  • alx_the_new_guy 3y ago
    >I do not understand people who volunteer unpaid labor and then complain bitterly about it. Well, let's say you helped someone on Reddit. What you were intending to do is to share your life experience with someone, making their, and maybe probably someone else's life meaningfully easier/save them some time. And, hopefully, someone will treat you the same way in return. What you also have done is contributed said part of your life experience towards making some meaninglessly rich guy even richer, and who will enshittify the platform you presumably enjoy using in return, so that he can make pennies on top of the follar he already earns.
    • spaced-out 3y ago
      Why did you "help" (in other words make a post/comment) that person on Reddit? Because you enjoy it, you enjoyed reading posts and comments by strangers, replying to them, and seeing your comments accumulate upvotes and other comments. Reddit gave you that experience for free.
      • inkywatcher 3y ago
        Reddit also occupies the space that otherwise might permit a more useful, benevolent internet platform. From a certain perspective, Reddit is standing in the way of an internet that better facilitates the enjoyment you describe.
        • spaced-out 3y ago
          You could say that about nearly any good thing in life. Your current job/relationship may be holding you back from an even better one. Those leftovers you grabbed out of the fridge are occupying the space that could be taken by an even better meal. Every minute you spend watching a TV show you've already seen or a videogame you've already played is taking away time from your finite lifespan you could be spending on new, novel experiences. If there's a better platform for giving you what you want, I'm sure you'd leave Reddit and never look back. If this platform you're imaging doesn't exist, how do you know it even could ever exist?
    • harkinian 3y ago
      These two things are not mutually exclusive. You can help someone via Reddit and Reddit also profits. But you aren't gonna get paid for it.
• rchaud 3y ago
  A "better Reddit" is a moderated Discourse messageboard (FOSS forum tool). Those exist: many software forums are on Discourse rather than pointing people to Stack Overflow or Discord.
• johnnyanmac 3y ago
  As much a piece of work that the founder was, Something Awful may have had a point. One time low (IMO) cost for access to a forum. Doesn't even have to he 10bux. Even $1 as a cost of entry fixes so many problems plauging the modern internet. Almost eliminates spam (bots or otherwise), deters trolling unless someone wants to spend dozens of dollars on alts, filters out a lot of younger folk who at least need access to a credit card to participate (so less liability for adult content should you choose to host it), and it lessens or removes the need to appeal to engagement and ads and whatnot. Of course, the huge downside is networking effects and you now in the 2020s have to compete against "free" services. It shouldn't be such a hump to overcome if you appeal to the right crowd, but you also need to somehow appeal to the power users who will ultimately get your site off the ground. And those are never easy to find.