Did anybody expect Reddit to become a better place after all what happened a couple of weeks ago?
I was never a big Reddit user, but I'm sure as hell not going to be one in the future.
I was never a big Reddit user, but I'm sure as hell not going to be one in the future.
Tho, perhaps the slow decay of site started even earlier with arrival of Ellen Pao; content already was spiraling down at that time
I don't think there's any hope for reddit; I expect that site will be even more sanitized to the point no "unsafe" content will be allowed to be posted. There are subs around that already are being used as platform for spreading PR of companies, which have nothing in common with these exotic truly run by ordinary people small communities.
Losing the addiction has been healthy. Going back is laughable.
Reddit was the only site I would scroll by world events to learn of their happening. (clearly I’m still here, but it’s a bit more niche)
It's easy to see this sort of access to information disappearing, and it's also easy to imagine that even if it didn't die now, it would soon be destroyed by large-scale usage of AI. I think the internet very briefly put a lot of power in the hands of users, but the pendulum is swinging back hard.
It's the same with reddit. Sure, I do appreciate some small gaming communities that I can't find anywhere else, but it's not what the site cares about, nor what many people see when they go to reddit.com. You need to search for those communities,and they aren't guaranteed to be good. Or active for that matter.
There are still active forums for most topics, and site search works just as well. What changes is a return to the old world where you can't put in one site to get it all anymore.
I personally desire that. You'd think all these fallouts of various social media would be a grim reminder of that cost of convenience, but alas.
So inevitably, people who like reddit want another reddit, and they will fall back into the same pitfalls if/when a better replacement comes.
Its left the mods with greatly increased workload as they now need to use the crappy tools Reddit gives them, and for some communities like the folks on /r/blind the site is totally unusable.
Most subreddits have ended the protests, and those that don't have had their mod teams forceably replaced, usually be people who are more interested in being mods than actually moderating.
Reddit had hundreds, if not a thousand people willing to work for free managing their site for them and they still screwed it up, just unbelievable stuff.
The last time the mods on /r/blind asked for a demo with screen curtain on, they were met with silence.
And for those who go "the average redditor doesn't care": well, here is another example of "power user" you may not have considered. They certainly are the minority, can't disagree with that.