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Not sure if this is what they meant, but Reddit is just Facebook for younger people. The outrage is the same, the click bait, the like hunting and the general a
by mrweasel 2y ago
Not sure if this is what they meant, but Reddit is just Facebook for younger people. The outrage is the same, the click bait, the like hunting and the general attention seeking. There's some good stuff, absolutely, but the same is true for Facebook.
If you're not part of a sub-culture, and a narrow one at that, then Reddit content is pretty much your run of the mill click bait. Just like with Facebook, I think that the good Reddit content is either in private or really niche sub-reddits. Things like AskReddit, Politics, AITA or any of the subreddits linked at the top of site, they are all pretty Facebook like content, just spewing out much faster.
- ykonstant 2y agoI don't know; reddit still has long-term, threaded discussions without character limit and a forum-like interface if you are using ~sane reddit~ sorry, I mean "old reddit". That is quite different from facebook, niche groups or not.
- mrweasel 2y agoMy theory is that they keep old.reddit.com around to generate training data for the AI companies.
- ykonstant 2y agoIf they know what is good for them, they will keep it for that reason at least. Because trying to read and write long form discussions in the "new" interface is a joke.
- aaronbaugher 2y agoI installed a Chrome extension that converts reddit URLs to old.reddit, because reading an entire discussion on new reddit is almost impossible, and clearly not something they intend you to do.
- red-iron-pine 2y agothe day that old.reddit stops working is the day I never use the platform again