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Reddit is a Dying Mall (staygrounded.online)
8mo ago by timdaub.eth •

I have to disagree with the take here, Reddit conversations can be like starting to talk to people in a dying mall. And they can also be totally rewarding when you‘re looking for a niche. But the same thing may be said for any other commercial social media platform, or for that sake, any business. Besides, it must be something uniquely culturally American that you don‘t wanna interact with someone in a dying mall. Something something status I, for one, could imagine meeting a nice person in a dying mall too, so that part of the criticism also doesn‘t make sense. But yeah, the rest of the criticism seems valid and so Reddit is probably advised to fix their mod/contribution incentive issue. It‘s also a chance for sites like Farcaster and Kiwi News to thrive.
>>> "Unlike Twitter, Reddit has no aristocracy class of “anchor” users that hold regular users to the platform. On Twitter, famous people stay for the attention and regular users stay for the famous people. That dance has kept Twitter relevant (though apparently also somehow not profitable?) despite the exodus of massive chunks of Twitter’s “cultural middle class” to the Mastodon network since Elon’s takeover last year. >>> There are celebrities on Reddit. But (outside of r/IAmA) they don’t get much attention, and they’re not why users go there. People go to Reddit for the content. Content made by users, and curated by mods." This is an interesting point. Because Reddit doesn't make people's profiles that important, it's more about the content than the users. Kind of like on Kiwi. On the other hand, when you think about the subreddit, there's typically a group of people responsible for the majority of high-quality content. So if they're gone, the subreddit is dead. Could the status be less tied to a particular person and more to a particular group? In other words, Twitter would be individualistic, whereas Reddit is more collectivistic.