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What you're missing when you leave Reddit, all of the "friendly" users (media.kbin.social)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Sturgeon's Law applies: 90% of everything is crap.

Reddit's value has never been in the "average redditor" or the "popular subs". The real value is in the niche tail of communities and the fact that they have such a massive amount of people that even if "only" 10% of their users were decent people, it still meant that they had enough decent people to talk with something to contribute.

All in all, this is just to say that our problem should not be about "Reddit users". Our problem should be with Reddit management. The threadiverse is still incredibly boring. Things here are mostly meta-conversations and there is little to no original content here. The way to solve this will be by bringing more people here. A lot more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Reddit’s value has never been in the “average redditor” or the “popular subs”. The real value is in the niche tail of communities and the fact that they have such a massive amount of people that even if “only” 10% of their users were decent people, it still meant that they had enough decent people to talk with something to contribute.

Yeah, I don't use Reddit any longer, but it was really great that there were active subs devoted to incredibly obscure topics. If you wanted to talk about something, chances were that thousands of other people did too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I had been on Reddit for 10+ years and never went near the ‘popular’ subs and I always had a great experience. I also didn’t go around trying to pick fights and also just ignored anything I didn’t like, so I was able to avoid almost all negative interactions.

Edit to add: I completely agree with you, if it wasn’t clear lol