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reddit is an echo chamber even worse than here. i dread depending on its platform for any content

by gcb1 13y ago

mkr-hn 13y ago
Reddit is not a monolith. There are thousands of communities for every interest beyond the defaults.
- ta_delited 13y ago
  I already left reddit a while ago following trend of wise people who did it before me because reddit got buried in stupid memes, cats pictures and copypasta. Comments lost insight and the hive mind took over.
chetanahuja 13y ago
Reddit is actually the most powerful facebook-alternative in existence today. And I mean alternative in the sense of "community for online conversations" and not necessarily, "place to post baby pictures". The sort of political and organizing power reddit has shown recently (say, with the SOPA campaign) is not thinkable on facebook or google+. An AMA on reddit has also become a required stop for actors/directors/authors etc. for promoting their latest projects. G+ can only dream of such reach and power and facebook is by design (and branding) not suitable for such "interactive-broadcasting" type of usage.
- gcb1 13y ago
  by your logic we should continue to use facebook then. now, if you want to start to discuss effectivenes instead of size, take a look at slashcode voting system.
PaulHoule 13y ago
More to the point, it's a nasty community. (Second in nastiness only to Wikipedia) The tone of reddit is set more by downvoting rather than upvoting. Any post on proggit about any language people actually use gets voted down by an army of bots written in languages that people don't use. Also, they're a bunch of communists because they'll vote you down if you drop any hint that (1) you're in it for the money or (2) you care about business in any way. Reddit's negativity might make it spam resistant, but it will repell mainstream audiences and prevent their expansion.
- mistermann 13y ago
  You're describing particular subreddits, not reddit.
mikeevans 13y ago
It did wonders for imgur?

reddit is an echo chamber even worse than here. i dread depending on its platform for any content

by gcb1 13y ago

reddit is an echo chamber even worse than here. i dread depending on its platform for any content

mkr-hn 13y ago

Reddit is not a monolith. There are thousands of communities for every interest beyond the defaults.

ta_delited 13y ago
I already left reddit a while ago following trend of wise people who did it before me because reddit got buried in stupid memes, cats pictures and copypasta. Comments lost insight and the hive mind took over.

chetanahuja 13y ago

Reddit is actually the most powerful facebook-alternative in existence today. And I mean alternative in the sense of "community for online conversations" and not necessarily, "place to post baby pictures". The sort of political and organizing power reddit has shown recently (say, with the SOPA campaign) is not thinkable on facebook or google+. An AMA on reddit has also become a required stop for actors/directors/authors etc. for promoting their latest projects. G+ can only dream of such reach and power and facebook is by design (and branding) not suitable for such "interactive-broadcasting" type of usage.

gcb1 13y ago
by your logic we should continue to use facebook then. now, if you want to start to discuss effectivenes instead of size, take a look at slashcode voting system.

PaulHoule 13y ago

More to the point, it's a nasty community. (Second in nastiness only to Wikipedia) The tone of reddit is set more by downvoting rather than upvoting. Any post on proggit about any language people actually use gets voted down by an army of bots written in languages that people don't use. Also, they're a bunch of communists because they'll vote you down if you drop any hint that (1) you're in it for the money or (2) you care about business in any way. Reddit's negativity might make it spam resistant, but it will repell mainstream audiences and prevent their expansion.

mistermann 13y ago
You're describing particular subreddits, not reddit.

mikeevans 13y ago

It did wonders for imgur?