Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hostile redesign killed it

Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by unglaublich on Monday June 12, 2023 @03:18AM (#36289557)

Techy/young people think that they are the intended audience of Reddit.

You're not anymore. The intended audience is _bigger_. It's like how Facebook shifted from young college folks to kids, moms, grandpas, and mainly companies.

The original users of Facebook left, but Facebook still grew.

Now it's Reddit's turn to swap its original user base with a bigger target audience.

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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by AlecSchueler on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:25AM (#36290087)

And do you think that new demographic will be willing to put in the same unpaid hours to moderate the site?

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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by unglaublich on Monday June 12, 2023 @05:17AM (#36290538)

Nope. They'll just outsource this to underpaid contractors like Facebook does.

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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by goykasi on Monday June 12, 2023 @05:51AM (#36290841)

Even better, if they could leverage LLMs, they could maybe automate a large part of the initial moderation. They have already acknowledged that these models were likely trained on their data. Why not feed new posts back into it and determine about relevance (on vs off topic), attitude (compassion vs hate) or quality (written by a bot)?

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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by tylergetsay on Monday June 12, 2023 @07:35AM (#36291853)

There's arguably more unpaid moderators on Facebook inside groups than reddit. FB claims 10million groups while reddit says 3.4 subreddits

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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by dvngnt_ on Monday June 12, 2023 @08:41AM (#36292497)

reddit is an order or magnitude smaller so in actually surprised the group numbers are so close which only proves the communities is a core feature of reddit

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