https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759130/reddit-protests-history-community-growth-moderation
Reddit has become more relevant over time — and its users have become more possessive.
I think it's intentional. The original user base of technologically inclined geeks weren't profitable. They've been pivoting to the social media crowd. This user base isn't so ideological. They just want a time waste scrolling app on their phone.
The original founders are long gone. Ohannian seems to mentally checked out ages ago. Swartz died a decade ago. Huffman is just cashing checks at this point.
reddit was always a piece of shit that benefitted from the death of traditional forums and the gradual enclosure of the internet
Between Reddit and Discord I don't know who did more damage. Forums were neat, especially because knowledge on it was permanent
Yeah. I worry about how many things are moving into Discord. They are giving so much away for free right now that it stifling competition. Eventually they will need to turn a profit and, with competition reduced, they can get real shitty with it.
I think that Discord's way worse. Not only it centralizes information, but also presents it in a unreadable way, and hides it from Google.
On Discord I never got a question answered. It just gets added to the list, then gets pushed out after a few seconds and it's gone. It's really bad. Imagine telling someone 10 years ago that most of discussion online would happen in private Skype group chats.
On Reddit there at least was a chance someone would answer your question after a few days.
knowledge on it was permanent
Unless someone linked to something.
I have often found old forum posts related to some problem I have only to find the link to the suggested solution broken.
True, but at least you could try to waybackmachine it, while discord is very often gated behind registration + phone verification and is not as easy to find the info you need