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It baffles me how reddit tends to evade the press coverage and discussions for as large and influential it is.

A reasonable explanation might be that the ppl who write these articles don't use it lol, as well as the people in congress who write regulations they report on.

They use Twitter and their parents use Facebook. Any article I've seen on reddit treats it as closer to 4chan than Twitter.

Must be the same people who think TikTok is just a dance app.

Journalists are invisible on Reddit so why would they care about it?

Possibly because reddit's owned by Advance Publications...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications

A company that owns a fair amount of media outlets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Advance_subsidiaries

Why would they report anything bad about themselves?

Media company XYZ that isn't affiliated with Advance Publications has no added incentive to report favorably on Reddit. Limiting Reddit would still be to their benefit in the same way that limiting FB or Twitter would be.

Except...Advance Publications is associated with Hearst

https://www.hearst.com/-/the-hearst-corporation-and-conde-na...

One of the board members of the associated press is from hearst

https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/125749Z:US

The associated press is a gigantic media organization that dominates just about all global media.

Most media are ran and controlled by the same people at the very top who have interests in a staggering amount of the media consumed around the world.

And essentially, reddit became the media's answer to facebook et al. after it was purchased by them.

Reminds me how some forums aren't allowed to have apps in the App Store due to porn, as well as the Tumblr porn controversy. Reddit has more porn and NSFW content than almost anywhere else.

Not in the apps though! Can’t get porn on any Reddit app, gotta use the browser. So I’m told.

You can, you just need to enable it in settings through web interface

I've heard the unofficial apps don't have any limitations and are available in app stores just fine.

Bacon Reader for Reddit allows full access of the NFSW subs

Same with Twitter. But I'm sure there's some contrived reason Apple can come up with for why Reddit and Twitter are allowed but not Tumblr (pre-gimping) and 4chan.

Reddit is owned by Advanced Publications, a media company.

Facebook and Google are sucking all the profits from old media - Reddit is their hedge against that. Of course they don't complain.

New money v.s. old money.

R/The_Donald got a ton of press coverage and discussion to the point where it was shut down, whereas the left leaning ragebait subs do not. Why is this do you think? Why do you think facebook gets so much press attention?

If the Tankies (who are the closest equivalent) ever get enough power to actually make a ruckus to the degree that the far-right did, the ban hammer will fall on them, too.

It already did. Reddit banned virtually every "far" leftist sub when they banned the_donald. Stupidpol is probably the closest thing left and I guarantee you that will be banned within the year too

Progressive redditors hated r/The_Donald but they recognized that it's methods work and they adopted the same tactics and created a few dozen subreddits using the same playbook. Ironically, the AOC-people are championing The_Donald's tactics better than anyone else and the Admin's don't feel like stopping them.

Well, you know. One subreddit spreads hate against non-white, non-straight, non-american people, the other subreddit spreads hate against fashists and billionaires, and people with power who discriminate others in general.

That being said, it really annoyed me how many AOC posts I saw on Reddit. I kinda like her, but I'm not from the US, so ultimately I don't care that much. It felt like Reddit was just a place to post every AOC tweet in existence.

Of course we can argue that hate is always bad, but this would turn into the ancient argument about what (physical) targets the right has, vs. the left. One group punches down, the other group tends to punch up.

This is simply not true. They banned at least a dozen leftist subreddits at the same time.

Because one group has the time to go onto the other's forums and scan for anything incendiary and forward it to the press.

And only one group of people says that they're being literally killed by words.

Also, most news channels do zero (literally) fact checking and often explicitly lie. Through 2020 I've seen so many talking heads directly contradict the videos coming out of events. Videos they could easily find and watch on Youtube if they cared.

It could also be due to how awful the new user experience is on Reddit. A journalist would be instantly turned off to using it as a source.

If you haven't seen it in a while, using a new browser or incognito mode, view reddit without logging in. It is an absolutely awful experience. The content you see as a new user is basically all memes and you are blasted with trending content on top of the card based feed.

Reddit doesn't make any money. Nobody wants to advertise to that user base, hence the endless redesigns.

On Reddit:

1. Many posts & comments are still longer than 3 half-lines, which is the upper limit of what a journalist can read (journalists like the 'journalists' who spend their time looking for something juicy on Twitter/FB).

2. Famous, bankable, known people are less identifiable.

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