Reddit just banned the biggest remaining pro-Trump community, r/donaldtrump.
(media.patriots.win)
Comments (788)
sorted by:
DEFAULT COMMUNITIES
•
All
General
AskWin
Funny
Technology
Animals
Sports
Gaming
DIY
Health
Positive
Privacy
These were results of the Ellen Pao monetization plan.
She came in and went on a recruiting spree to bring in her people. There's some classic chan posts of engineers for reddit at the time commenting at the incompetence on display, laying out how they destroyed core value of the platform. Spez came in. Ellen went out. Ellen's people stayed and shit up the place with a sprinkling of glitter and spritz of pinterest. Sanitized to the lowest common denominator of most authoritarian communist country. And you've got a deformed gimp reddit 2.0 product nobody but marketing teams, bots, and disinfo agents could tolerate.
The great mods are gone. The community builders. The professionals hobbying for free together in that space. When Google results returned pages of results sorted by highest marketing budget, you could research almost any product or problem on reddit and get authentic comment in far faster time. The value was honest sentiment analysis of the general public. This was a supercharged pool for rapid exchange of ideas, improving the human. They polluted and destroyed that reservoir of information and imagination. That was their killer feature and value.
Like Digg before it they pulled out the rusty knife and cut off the part of themselves they'll miss most.
So true. Sad, really
They still had and have a lot of momentum, and that momentum helps them a lot. I go there maybe once a month or so, typically due to search results reg. technical stuff, and the format there seems much worse than it used to (and many more overt ads, though I guess that is the monetization kicking in).
The reddit model itself tends to have both advantages and issues, which you can see in various ways in some of the reddit-like sites. Hidden promoters, artificial upvote/downvote-opinion-shaping, some comments that were benign being unintentionally hidden, etc. I think this site is very good at avoiding some of these, (much) better than other reddit-like sites I have seen overall, but definitely not all these issues.
I think sites such as the ch[ns are very good supplements to a site such as this.
You remind me how obnoxious the redesign was. Information density is king. The design for dependency infantilization trend in the last decade of tech loads white space, eliminates density to more directly focus attention. Results in a crap experience when what I need is a dense list to skim through quickly, pluck out items of interest, and rapidly get into it. Defaulting to 'old.reddit.com' to restore functionality is a pain in the ass that lead to moving back to RSS feeds for general use.
The amateur porn is pretty decent, and /r/gundeals is not to be overlooked.
Why not find a wife and start a family instead, fren?
Interesting. Do you have any thoughts on /k/ ?
I've already got the wife and kids.
/k/'s /k/, there's no explaining it.