Linus Torvalds Says Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram Are 'A Disease'

Re:Linus Torvalds Says Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram Are ... by seneca on Thursday April 04, 2019 @09:28AM (#19572016)

Reddit is very far from a forum. It's centrally administered by people outside your community who have a profit motive, it serves ads, has a terrible free speech record, and a slight amount of popularity means people will wander into your community and, generally, fill it with low content garbage. Reddit is a horrible place to host a community, and, in my eyes, is the actual cause of the death of forums more so than Facebook.

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Re:Linus Torvalds Says Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram Are ... by de_watcher on Thursday April 04, 2019 @10:48AM (#19572947)

> It's centrally administered by people outside your community who have a profit motive

The only thing that the administrators outside your community do is the shitty redesigns of the UI (big thanks to them for the "old.reddit.com" option though).

Everything else is done by the community of a subreddit.

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Re:Linus Torvalds Says Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram Are ... by AlexB138 on Thursday April 04, 2019 @10:55AM (#19573033)

Reddit admins shut down communities without warning due to their own political whims, have edited the content of a users post with no indication of doing so, and, as said already, inject ads. Reddit's model is paternalistic at best.

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Re:Linus Torvalds Says Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram Are ... by quake on Thursday April 04, 2019 @11:48AM (#19573696)

I would say that political whims have nothing to do with shutting down subs like fatpeoplehate, jailbait and incels. Places that routinely advocate, or have been directly tied to violence tend to get shut down. See the pizzagate debacle. Same with all the qanon stuff.

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Re:Linus Torvalds Says Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram Are ... by wcarron on Thursday April 04, 2019 @10:06PM (#19579025)

Interesting, /r/the_donald, which has, and continues to this day, explicitly called for perpetrating violence on minorities, people with opposing political views, democratic politicians, etc. etc ad nauseum, remains up and running to this day.

It is far and away worse than fph and incels in terms of content, but for some mystical reason that's totally not /u/spez vetoing any attempt to reign it in due to his conservative ideology, it has missed the banhammer.

Complete political whims.

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Re:Linus Torvalds Says Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram Are ... by mr_overalls on Thursday April 04, 2019 @10:12AM (#19572509)

Do you have any recommendations for a better general-discussion site?

Personally, I have found myself resorting to discussion sites focused on a single topic, like Hacker News instead of /r/programming, or DharmaWheel.net instead of /r/Buddhism.

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Re:Linus Torvalds Says Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram Are ... by AlexB138 on Thursday April 04, 2019 @10:44AM (#19572898)

I don't, unfortunately. I'm in the same boat as you. I frequent a few narrowly focused sites, and spend some time in a couple IRC channels for more general discussion, but that's not quite the same. I wish I had a good recommendation, and would love to hear one from others.

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