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Comment by fullshark | Hacker News Reader

Reddit sociality died a long time ago, once upon a time there was an actual community based on nonsense like love of bacon/narwhals. It's now just useful as a (heavily biased) crowdsource and for niche topics.

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For niche topics it can be quite good. I have maybe 30 active niche topics with anything from a few thousand to several million subscribers where the discourse is civil and useful, most of the time. Good moderation seems key.

You are making a pretty big assumption that you are not talking to bots. How can you be certain?

I also find Reddit good- but given I mainly follow subreddits focused on PC hardware, I'm less concerned. I would never go to Reddit for discussion about political or controversial topics where botting would be a target.

But not just due to astroturfing, but their users are also just pretty crazy and exist in a extremely narrow bubble.

No, that's just topics being irrelevant to spammers. Nothing to do with mods.

Reddit got too big to have a "global" community of any kind; if you're looking for community on reddit, look in the subreddits. There are many that still have a thriving culture - but that also means that it might not be easy to join.

I still find it a good discussion forum in certain subreddits. It is much better than anything I have seen on X.

reddit these days is a constant reminder that there are few things more annoying than seeing bad arguments for stances you agree with

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