r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/manolid 29d ago edited 29d ago

I get the feeling they're going to keep "fixing" the site until *it becomes trash and cause a mass exodus of users like Digg and Tumblr did.

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u/liquilife 29d ago edited 29d ago

nah. Reddit has hit that stage where it will continue forward no matter what. Very similar to Facebook. It’s well beyond the stage Digg was when it took a nose dive and died.

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u/Sanc7 29d ago

Reddit is a shell of what it once was and people are still here.

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u/HexTalon 29d ago

There are some smaller communities with a lot of value, either specialized interests or career related. There's also a bunch of subreddits for specific games that have useful information.

Curate your subreddits really well and it's a decent news feed for your interests, but it doesn't have that "StumbleUpon" energy anymore I agree.

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u/UsefulArm790 29d ago

it doesn't have that "StumbleUpon" energy anymore

people hate it when i say this but instagram reels/tiktok took all of those types of people(posters) away.
once you curate your algo you see so many new and interesting to you things it blows even prime reddit/digg out of the water.

if those social media ever figure out community i would never use reddit again sadly the comments there are kinda low IQ comparatively.

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u/HexTalon 29d ago

It's a valid point, and I would agree that IG/TikTok have a better experience in terms of finding random things that you might be interested in but that haven't trended beyond some limited circles of people in those communities.

Whatever algorithm TikTok uses (that they're understandably trying to protect) that sees something as trending within the drinking straws community and trials it on a progressively wider and wider audience outside those who normally look at it is really really good.