Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable

Re:Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experie... by WindyLakeReturn on Friday September 04, 2020 @09:17AM (#24374639)

>Reddit, at one point, was just science, memes, an occasional atheist post, and and A list Celebrity AMA every other day - a platform that provided niche content mostly for age 18-30 year old Americans.

This seems to mostly outright ignore some of the more controversial subreddits that existed/flourished in the past. There was a significant amount of content, including entire subreddits, dedicated to sexualizing minors.

It feels revisionist to think reddit has only recently become flooded with controversial content.

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Re:Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experie... by RandoHolmes on Friday September 04, 2020 @11:27PM (#24381198)

I never really got the outrage for that subreddit. Minors are sexualized in society all the time, especially by various magazines, and it's completely, 100% legal and accepted.

IIRC there were accusations of CP being put up and not taken down in a timely manner. For that reason I'm ok with the subreddit not being there, but the whole "sexualization of a minor" thing is a red herring.

just imagine if someone got up in arms about a magazine putting a picture of a 16 y/o with big tits on their cover. No one does unless she's explicitly in a sexual position.

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