Reddit is dying

Hmm, so sell or keep hold of those class A shares I bought at the IPO.

Wish I had gone for more than just a token £250 now, but just wanted to test the water......
 
mejinks said:
It used to be mildly entertaining, but now its a toxic wasteland of power tripping mods and die hard ultra leftists.
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my city page has the worst mods.... pure utter nobs who would rather have an echo chamber of their own thoughts.

Reddit is simply a place losers in real life cling on to and get mod status so they can power trip and create an echo chamber.

you know the types... its the same ones in MMOs that used to make guilds, then you find out the guild leader is like 14 years old... kid wanting power, same happened in chat rooms back in the day too, the worst kinds work there way up and create their own personal space
 
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arknor said:
my city page has the worst mods.... pure utter nobs who would rather have an echo chamber of their own thoughts.

Reddit is simply a place losers in real life cling on to and get mod status so they can power trip and create an echo chamber.

you know the types... its the same ones in MMOs that used to make guilds, then you find out the guild leader is like 14 years old... kid wanting power, same happened in chat rooms back in the day too, the worst kinds work there way up and create their own personal space
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Well what do you expect?

These folks are volunteers and the field of people willing to moderate a platform like that is limited strictly to people who are altogether too engaged with the internet. The ideal person willing to stay hands off has better things to do with their time and the only viable alternative is an algorithm-based system that can't possibly fit every country's perception of 'acceptable' speech. I shall also take a moment to say that echo chambers (a place where like-minded individuals congregate) have always existed, will always exist and trying to defeat human nature is a fools errand.
 
arknor said:
my city page has the worst mods.... pure utter nobs who would rather have an echo chamber of their own thoughts.

Reddit is simply a place losers in real life cling on to and get mod status so they can power trip and create an echo chamber.

you know the types... its the same ones in MMOs that used to make guilds, then you find out the guild leader is like 14 years old... kid wanting power, same happened in chat rooms back in the day too, the worst kinds work there way up and create their own personal space
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It happened here years ago. Power tripping teenagers and adults who hadn't progressed past angsty teenager maturity. Im talking a while ago though, hence the reason I have a low post count.
 
StriderX said:
These folks are volunteers and the field of people willing to moderate a platform like that is limited strictly to people who are altogether too engaged with the internet.
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yea they seem to live on it detached from reality and unable to see the world from multiple perspectives
 
StriderX said:
Well what do you expect?

These folks are volunteers and the field of people willing to moderate a platform like that is limited strictly to people who are altogether too engaged with the internet. The ideal person willing to stay hands off has better things to do with their time and the only viable alternative is an algorithm-based system that can't possibly fit every country's perception of 'acceptable' speech. I shall also take a moment to say that echo chambers (a place where like-minded individuals congregate) have always existed, will always exist and trying to defeat human nature is a fools errand.
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A surprisingly small number of people control a surprisingly large amount of subreddits, and they're all pally-like. If you search up on it, it's quite eye opening.
 
I don't think Reddit is dying, to the contrary I've been appending 'reddit' to almost every Google search for what feels like a few years now, to get past the SEO/AI/content farm slop.
Of course it's going to be battling AI slop itself, but at least without ad money the motivation to post nonsense is not the same as it is for websites and social media.
 
Paracelsus said:
I don't think Reddit is dying, to the contrary I've been appending 'reddit' to almost every Google search for what feels like a few years now, to get past the SEO/AI/content farm slop.
Of course it's going to be battling AI slop itself, but at least without ad money the motivation to post nonsense is not the same as it is for websites and social media.
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Sad reality of Google lately - so many searches you get well basically slop with promoted results over useful information instead of a straight answer unless you append something like Reddit to the search term. So different from 10+ years ago where it would almost immediately bring up what you were looking for.
 
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