92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people

Re:92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people by marcosdumay on Thursday May 14, 2020 @02:15PM (#23183244)

The best part of forums was that they didn't have much temporal dependency. People posted things there, and it was expected that other would reply days or months later. It made for a much more calm and lively discussion.

When Reddit puts something on the hot tab, there's one hour or two for anybody to say what they want to say, no time for anybody to reply, and it's gone. HN is slower, but not very different. It's a completely different kind of site.

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Re:92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people by zentiggr on Thursday May 14, 2020 @04:53PM (#23185285)

Also my lamenting the loss of newsgroups for just that effect.

Used to be in alt.callahans and I can't imagine how many threads I just collapsed and moved on because I knew that conversation wasn't a topic of mine. And still managed to ping in at least a few dozen messages of varying size/quality a week.

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Re:92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people by intended on Friday May 15, 2020 @12:01PM (#23193714)

Eternal september is more powerful than any form of site design or BBS format.

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Re:92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people by ChainOfFools on Friday May 15, 2020 @01:38AM (#23189235)

i think this may be strongly correlated with the end of dialup and the rise of always-on internet, and then again in the rise of always-on-hand smartphone internet usage (and its pervasive push notification capacity), each stage raising the ground state of expected response times. speed then proceeded to kill everything in its way.

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Re:92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people by annadane on Thursday May 14, 2020 @04:35PM (#23185053)

This is also what I fucking hate about Facebook's desire to make you spend all your time there. They do the same sort of thing.

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