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Re:Reddit.com on July 25th, 2005 – 1 month after launch by echelon on Friday September 18, 2020 @05:59PM (#24522302)
> It's an absolute phenomenon, man.

It was. Now it's a cesspool.

> Recommendations, discussion,

It's become the worst kind of echo chamber. The comments feel like they're written by GPT-3, and there's a lot of prideful ignorance or confidence when it's undeserved.

I had to laugh when they added "avatars" and everyone started setting theirs to dancing seizure cockroaches.

My avatar is the Digg logo.

> backstage access to celebs

AMA was sincere when it started. Now it's just lame cash grab marketing and self-promotion.

> And it's YC.

Yeah. I feel like they exited too early. Conde Nast made all the money here.

Re:Reddit.com on July 25th, 2005 – 1 month after launch by Jtsummers on Friday September 18, 2020 @06:02PM (#24522314)
This is why I exclusively stick to technical subreddits. r/programming suffered from severe moderation a few years back which knocked me out of even looking at it (posts were heavily moderated and their front page wouldn't change for days). But the various programming language subreddits (in aggregate) make for good reading for me.
Re:Reddit.com on July 25th, 2005 – 1 month after launch by Diederich on Friday September 18, 2020 @06:08PM (#24522358)
> It was. Now it's a cesspool.

All of it?

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians for example.

Re:Reddit.com on July 25th, 2005 – 1 month after launch by chx on Friday September 18, 2020 @07:08PM (#24522737)
AskHistorians moderation is legendary -- and unique.

Tiny subreddits (like usbchardware where I am mod) are easy to keep nice. But most larges ones are horrible, horrible toxic cesspools. It is basically a phenomenon that communities break off the larger one when it becomes too toxic -- but all too often the larger one won't wither. /r/canada and /r/onguardforthee/ is a classic example.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/7z706y/whats_... and an example post from /r/canada within the last hour, you don't need to look far for stuff like this "I feel like ISIS would be better the liberals at this point for canada."

Let's not even mention the childfree subs because what the original one became is shudder

Re:Reddit.com on July 25th, 2005 – 1 month after launch by rimliu on Friday September 18, 2020 @06:18PM (#24522420)
Sad to say it, but HN got worse. On reddit you can at least still choose some different subreddit with different culture.
Re:Reddit.com on July 25th, 2005 – 1 month after launch by renewiltord on Friday September 18, 2020 @06:49PM (#24522599)
Nah man, that's the beauty of Reddit. Reddit isn't a single thing. /r/esp8266 is dope. /r/prusa3d is ledge. They figured out the mop/geek problem by just allowing arbitrary namespacing. Way better than any free community. Maybe Metafilter is better if you want to spend the $5. Dunno.

Lobste.rs tried that for technical stuff with tags and that engine is really powerful but the community never took off.

HN, of course, well, you know what it's like here when people of diverse interests and moral foundations are placed together.