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Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by Barrin92 on Friday December 04, 2020 @05:21PM (#25309040)
it's the downside of reddit still being a relatively federated, open platform. You have to dig yourself to find good content and niche subreddits, but I vastly prefer it to the centralised, 'overlord AI', algorithmic stuff on every other service.

You can't have it both, if you have decentralisation and pretty free expression you get a lot of garbage and responsibility is on you to find what's worth looking at. I also don't see politics as bad. Sure the level of discourse is abysmal, kind of the norm for politics anyway, but I'll take people at least talking about politics than cat videos and bikini pictures and 'pranking homeless people' videos.

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Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by MeinBlutIstBlau on Friday December 04, 2020 @08:05PM (#25310562)
I'd agree with this if Reddit didn't ban literally every single subreddit their vocal minority didn't like. Reddit used to be a fun hybrid of Fark and Slashdot. It was far better than both of those and had a niche audience just a little larger than the HN community. It was great. Now it just feels like a perpetual tumblr ready to silence the reason why their users are even on their platform.
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Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by Trill-I-Am on Friday December 04, 2020 @09:56PM (#25311273)
What subreddits have they banned that weren't vile?
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Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by uyt on Friday December 04, 2020 @11:48PM (#25311846)
/r/watchpeopledie was a very educational sub.

Sometimes you just want to see real life events that they will never show on TV. Reddit used to be a place where you could find content like that.

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Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by MeinBlutIstBlau on Sunday December 06, 2020 @10:14AM (#25323954)
Pornography can vile yet ISP's don't take them down even though they could. Why can't reddit do the same thing? 4chan exists as well yet they haven't been taken down.

This is why I disagree with the argument that reddit hasn't taken down any subreddits that "werent vile." If someone is on the internet, they're going to find something they're interested in. ISP's can't stop it for web traffic, why should reddit be treated any differently?

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