The really confusing part to me, is that, though I haven’t personally read the comments, I don’t doubt your experience… But the post is in /r/redditalternatives… Which should be filled with members who are actively encouraging and discussing openly alternatives to Reddit… Right?
It confuses me why there seem to be so many Reddit die-hards in a subreddit about finding other sites that bear some similarity to Reddit…
Then again, straight Christians who are anti-LGBTQ+ show up to gay pride regularly too… Which is equally confusing to me. I get it, you don’t like it. That’s fine. Just go home Sarah, nobody wants you here when you’re just going to complain the whole time.
(I know there’s more depth to this example than I’ve touched on, it’s not the point of the example, so I’ll just stop there)
It’s reddit though. How can we know how many of those people are real?
Even before the Reddit app debacle, reddit made very questionable decisions and if you went to look at that discussion at a later date, the answers that were artificially boosted to the top (this depended on how you went to look at the site, it seemed a lot less in old reddit) seemed as fake as a fake Amazon review, as if reddit was astroturfing their own website.
Reedits motto was “fake it till you make it” and we know that disinformation campaigns are also rife on the platform so there is every reason to believe a single entity is behind these accounts, whether it be Reddit itself or a third party.
That said, there is kinda a sunk cost fallacy thing too in the sense that people have decided Reddit is “their platform” of choice and people will defend it like a diehard sports fan does for right or wrong. Just like in politics which is just as weird too.
The really confusing part to me, is that, though I haven’t personally read the comments, I don’t doubt your experience… But the post is in /r/redditalternatives… Which should be filled with members who are actively encouraging and discussing openly alternatives to Reddit… Right?
It confuses me why there seem to be so many Reddit die-hards in a subreddit about finding other sites that bear some similarity to Reddit…
Then again, straight Christians who are anti-LGBTQ+ show up to gay pride regularly too… Which is equally confusing to me. I get it, you don’t like it. That’s fine. Just go home Sarah, nobody wants you here when you’re just going to complain the whole time. (I know there’s more depth to this example than I’ve touched on, it’s not the point of the example, so I’ll just stop there)
It’s reddit though. How can we know how many of those people are real?
Even before the Reddit app debacle, reddit made very questionable decisions and if you went to look at that discussion at a later date, the answers that were artificially boosted to the top (this depended on how you went to look at the site, it seemed a lot less in old reddit) seemed as fake as a fake Amazon review, as if reddit was astroturfing their own website.
The change that broke reddit for me was this: https://old.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/s71g03/announcing_blocking_updates/?limit=500 I have no way of looking at the thread without using old.reddit, so I don’t know if it still looks as astroturfed as it did back then.
Reedits motto was “fake it till you make it” and we know that disinformation campaigns are also rife on the platform so there is every reason to believe a single entity is behind these accounts, whether it be Reddit itself or a third party.
That said, there is kinda a sunk cost fallacy thing too in the sense that people have decided Reddit is “their platform” of choice and people will defend it like a diehard sports fan does for right or wrong. Just like in politics which is just as weird too.
Reddit’s bigger communities are a kind of double-speak: r/funny is anything but, for instance.