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| 2 days ago | comment | added | zcoop98 | I think something else worth noting is just simple network effects– Reddit keeps users because it has users; everyone "hates" Reddit, yet everyone uses/ references it; the network effect flywheel in action. Stack used to have that too... we had enough experts that people were willing to endure an often abrasive onboarding experience to join the community. Now that we don't, some of those problems that have been around for a very long time are more prominent, even if they didn't "get worse", simply because the reward side of the risk/reward ratio for engaging has diminished. | |
| Jul 13 at 10:59 | comment | added | Dharman Mod | And the problem with Reddit is that if I search for something on Google and it gives me links to Reddit, everything older than 6 months is probably no longer relevant. Reddit thrives on new posts and quickly forgets the old. It is not a knowledge base, it's a forum, a kind of social media where people go to chat about recent events. | |
| Jul 11 at 18:32 | comment | added | Karl Knechtel | As for Reddit, it continues to be popular because it's the same kind of algorithmic hellhole as all the other social media. | |
| Jul 11 at 18:30 | comment | added | Karl Knechtel | "It's kind of crazy how quickly that shift happened" — I don't think it did happen quickly, actually. I think that as the post-COVID bump disappeared and activity continued to fall of as it has since 2014, it became easier and easier for content creators to find something to mock; then this reached a tipping point, where resurrecting long-standing patterns of hatred for SO became memetic. | |
| Jul 10 at 16:55 | history | answered | Gimby | CC BY-SA 4.0 |