Aliens in the valley: The complete and chaotic history of Reddit (2014)

Re:Aliens in the valley: The complete and chaotic history of... by Scapeghost on Saturday November 09, 2019 @08:44PM (#21495853)

> This is what originally made Reddit awesome but the reversal of which has been slowly killing the fun. Mods have hijacked Reddit and turned all of the popular subreddits into their own pet newspapers which they are the chief editors/owner and only they themselves decide which content the users will enjoy.

That is true and I hate it.

A handful of people should never get to decide what millions can talk about.

But compared to oldschool forums, at least they don't butt into conversations too often and make things awkward.

It's definitely time for the Fourth Age (counting NNTP as the first), that combines the best things about oldschool forums with the best things about Reddit.

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Re:Aliens in the valley: The complete and chaotic history of... by dmix on Saturday November 09, 2019 @11:23PM (#21496393)

> It's definitely time for the Fourth Age

Agreed, do you have an ideas which would help push us forward?... this is clearly a step backwards, pushing us back towards the super-safe bigco communications world like 5-oclock TV news shows with pre-approved talking points.

Obviously developing new Reddit and Twitter alternatives that look like 2000s-era PHP shitholes aren't helping the problem.... or worse clones which merely pander to political extremists on the right or left or fringe groups which then scares off the moderates or politically disinterested.

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Re:Aliens in the valley: The complete and chaotic history of... by Scapeghost on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @06:06PM (#21589595)

> Agreed, do you have an ideas which would help push us forward?

I do, as I'm sure most of us do (have ideas).

But even if I manage to make an objectively better alternative, I can't guarantee that I won't become one of those mods :)

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