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Reddit makes for a poor "social" media website because it's designed for conformity of the subreddit (and to a much lesser extent, for the community). For larger subreddits, each thread should be taken as a snapshot of the consciousness of a given subreddit with all the interesting bits sanded away, the dissent filtered and the entire thing blurred. Any motion against the hive mind of the subreddit is met with a multi-layered muting from the users, mods and admins. Unlike a conventional social media forum like FoH, a single user can't have an outsized effect on the conversation in opposition to the community by slaving away at spamming a thread without incurring massive downvotes that will silence them.

It's a perfectly fine website, I frequent a lot of the esoteric subreddits where factual information sharing is the goal and debate is irrelevant. For example, the game I'm playing, Factorio, r/technicalfactorio is great. It's a terrible place for real conversation about contentious issues. If you want debate, look elsewhere.
 
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Voyce

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yerm said:
There's some good ones there but a lot are trash. I was hoping for a nice collection. Oh well. No surprise, the trash don't seem to even be right wing memes a lot of the time, just infighting on the left (terf etc). Tons have more text than my typical eq related posts.
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Well its hard for NPCs to dunk on the good stuff, so I suppose they are actually going after the cruft - but you know they're still NPCs
 
Haus

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Big Phoenix said:
Reddit is good for two things;

amateur porn
niche subreddits of hobbies/interest/skills
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The second on that list is what I essentially use Reddit for. I pick up a new hobby? (3d printing, resin printing, metal casting, metal foundry work, etc... most recently welding as I'm teaching myself that next) I go find the subreddit for it and read to learn. I know that I am using a TINY fraction of the site, the VAST majority of it is infected and overrun with people I couldn't find common ground with if I tried. So I avoid those areas, just like smart people (even if they're highly capable of taking care of themselves) avoid parts of town where they know there's an inordinately high chance of being screwed with.

The big problem I see with Reddit , which is what pisses me off, aren't particular threads or subreddits. It's that it's created an environment where someone with the absolute worst of human traits can easily find a group of a few thousand other people who share those traits and that gives them a sense of those traits being "normal" and "good" and "valid". Most recent big example is "Minor Attracted Person" Pedo subreddits. The fact that Reddit enables this is what grinds my gears.
 
Aldarion

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I dunno why no one is mentioning the 300 lb gorilla in the room

Reddit is inherently fucked up because of the "sort by best" option. Yes you can sort your own view by new (like any sensible person) but you can't force everyone else to sort it that way.

It is the entire root of the problem with the platform. Its part of the more general problem created by social media designers intentionally, where different people see different things when they log in.

You can't fix something with such a fundamental flaw. Everything else bad about Reddit flows from this.
 
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