When the user revolt ends—if it ever does—Reddit’s community won’t ever be the same.
  • Morningcoffee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think the older core of reddit has always viewed itself as a bottom-up community, rather than a social media platform. Reddit won’t die for now, but this is a sobering wakeup call from that idea.

    Reddit is no freehaven, it’s now just another company, and slowly everyone on it will get squeezed into the businessmold…

    • Domriso@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I certainly never viewed it as a social media site. I joined it as a link aggregator and a way to find information on topics I thought were interesting, not make friends. It always seems odd to me when people refer to it as a social media site.

      • swnt@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Indeed. Reddit is knowb as the site where you talk with strangers on things you care about - whereas Facebook is talking with people you know about things you don’t care about.