I wonder why Conde Nast even bought reddit in the first place.
It's cool that they let them run the web site as an independent entity more or less, but it really seems like they don't like supporting them (see Reddit Gold).
It's cool that they let them run the web site as an independent entity more or less, but it really seems like they don't like supporting them (see Reddit Gold).
In fact they ended up with a liberal pro drug, pro gay, pro adblock, anti capitalism, anti consumerism, anti advertising, athiest website.
As time has gone on Reddits userbase seems to have become narrower and narrower even though it's obviously grown massively. Maybe it's groupthink at work, or maybe it's just come to be known as a hangout for liberals being outraged by stuff.
The community remains remarkably split on adblock use (especially on sites they like, etc). There are people that oppose plenty of drug use (calling pot a drug is disingenuous for shock factor of "calling out" reddit) and being antigay is yes, unpopular on a social voting news site, shocking.
Now I'm not for one minute defending people who only watch Fox News, but there are people who only get their news from Reddit. So instead of a blinkered, biased, inaccurate kneejerkist feed of stories from Fox, they get a blinkered, biased, inaccurate kneejerkist feed of stories from Reddit.
Furthermore (edit), the subreddits that you subscribe to radically change the articles you encounter on the homepage.
Over time online communities such as HN and Reddit gravitate towards a specific set of viewpoints.
It means that you start only seeing certain types of article, you only see certain types of comments, comments that 'toe the party line' are upvoted to top, etc.
The other funny thing is how much Redditors etc love to sneer down their noses at the 'idiots' who watch TV. They don't seem to realize that spending hours on reddit looking at funny pictures, being outraged by liberal news etc isn't really any better than watching American Idol and being outraged by the stuff on Fox news.
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Which is why we should not have politics here.
Can you suggest an alternative to reddit? I really want a less politic, religion or cat pics more tech, coding and critical thinking community.
Arguing that it should be taken seriously without evidence really doesn't help your case.
Us are always better than them it's a cornerstone of human culture.