The lack of real names, and shitty games prevents influences and garbage celebrity monetizations.
I haven't seen a Cambridge Analytica style event happen on reddit. That happened brazenly in the open, and still happens today on Facebook/Twitter to subvert democratic processes (e.g. Brazil, India, US, UK).
The best of reddit and HN can only exist because they're niche subcommunities.
We should be under no illusions what would happen to HN if 5% of YouTube commenters showed up tomorrow.
disagree. it's about - and has always been since the first usenet message - moderation. lots of free speech absolutists confuse moderation with censorship and Elon will learn the difference with sweat, blood and tears if he doesn't know it already (note: I can hardly imagine why he wouldn't know it).
It's not a question of scale, it's a question of culture. Also, Reddit and HN do have active moderation.
Yea you get toxic, cancerous, illegal subcommunities etc... On the whole though I am happy with the upvote, downvote curation compared with the algorithmic trash provided by FB. Even before reddit went overly filtering for advertisement purposes, I was happier on Reddit/Digg than the trash that came aftewrards.
In my opinion, humanity would be significantly better off without Twitter/Facebook.
I have seen death threats, anti-vaccer junk, brexit/trump/le Pen, Cambridge Analytica style election manipulation (including for Bolsonaro and Modi), the Myanmar genocide and human trafficking on a massive scale via FB/twitter.
I remember being pitched specifically about several cases of groups/companies using Facebook/Twitter to subvert democratic processes via selective targeted propaganda.
Nobody subscribes to all of Reddit.
Nobody subscribes to every Youtube channel.
So what is your point?
It's a model that work and scales to half a billion users per month.
Reddit's moderators are volunteers with iron fists who only police tiny sections of reddit. Admins get involved in TOS violations, not direct moderation.
Your comparison makes no sense.
What moderation? For what are you talking about? From what I gather they predominantly rely on automatic filtering, with barely any human filtering. They don't even moderate some of their largest channels.
E.g.
LinusTechTips complaining about spam junk and community fed solutions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo_uoFI1WXM
MarquesBrownLee doing the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cw-vODp-8Y
Reddit does the same broad stroke in that yea they have broad generic spam/bot detection, and also rely on reporting moderation and community driven tool. They already operate in a similar/better model than youtube.
The original argument was that Reddit/HN couldn't handle 5% of Youtube community and I am calling nonsense to that.
That's false, admins do get involved in direct moderation, and Reddit has a whole team of admins (Reddit employees).
In that case, why would you care about the threats exactly?
The threats caused by people like Trump, Joe Rogan, Musk, Russian bot farms, Farage, Le Pen etc... and their toxic ignorant views on Vaccines, climate change are far far worse to society than some vague inactionable death threats.
The community decides in absence of who is saying whether my words have merit.
If it doesn't, I have a healthy ability to toss my entire account and walk away.
In some countries a lot of people share the same full name.
I'm gonna call nonsense on this. Practically every social media platform that forces real identities are cesspits because of the real name policy. Largely because of the soap box celebrities/influencers who shill their views and monetize their followers.
I prefer reddit/HN a thousand times over the garbage of twitter/FB/etc..