Re:92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people
by schkkd on Thursday May 14, 2020 @03:15AM
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Reddit serves its purpose well. It's a honeypot for lazy emotional people: reddit offers them space to procrastinate and gets to influence them in return (ads, politics).
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Re:92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people
by ryanwaggoner on Thursday May 14, 2020 @05:59AM
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You’re just describing all advertising-supported media, from TV to magazines to large swaths of the web.
Do you honestly think HN is in a different category? Why do you think this site exists? And how many billions of collective hours of procrastination have been spent here?
Granted, this site is relatively well-moderated and high signal to noise, especially for its size, but so are many subreddits. The top subreddits are a dumpster fire but there are thousands of smaller niche subs that are delightful.