Reddit is worse imo just because of how the site is structured and the power of mods.

Default Reddit mainpage is strictly what you subscribe to. And from a tech point of view, Reddit has old. CSS, it has tree style comments with sorting and collapsing, it has no dumb character limits, and on big screens it properly fills the screen with content instead of dumb emptiness or fluff or just infogarbage (do people remember that hashtags are literally just a useless character dumps, born out of the limitations of the SMS tech).

So no, Reddit is not worse than Xitter both on social and tech merit.

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philipallstar 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes - community notes were a surprisingly decent alternative to more gameable authority structures.

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jandrese an hour ago | parent [-]

Community notes tend to be a day late and a dollar short though.

	▲	philipallstar an hour ago \| parent [-]
		But still the best solution so far.

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vintermann an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Reddit voted itself out of my attention by requiring login for old.reddit.com browsing.

	▲	D-Machine an hour ago \| parent [-]
		You can work around this (for now) with the Firefox Old Reddit Redirect extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re.... Not that you're missing much...

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angoragoats 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Option A: You occasionally encounter power tripping mods on a site where you are free to create your own community and become the mod yourself.

Option B: a power tripping drug-addled Nazi billionaire owns the entire site and can change the site behavior for every user on a whim, with no recourse.

This doesn’t seem like a hard choice to make.

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phoghed an hour ago | parent | next [-]

An echo chamber isn’t inherently bad, and moderation is required to maintain any semblance of a well functioning online community.

Reddit can be good if you stay in your niche and off the default subs. Twitter is good if you similarly curate your experience and don’t let it push you into garbage.

I don’t use either much anymore.

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dist-epoch an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> a power tripping drug-addled Nazi billionaire

Are you anti-drugs? Do you think drug users are bad people or using drugs is condemnable? I'm asking because anti-fascists are typically pro-drugs. So I'm confused.

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vintermann an hour ago | parent [-]

Were you on drugs when you wrote that post?

You don't think drug users are bad people, so surely that's just a neutral question...

Or maybe there are times where drug use can still be a problem, whether it makes people bad people or not.

Don't drink and drive. Don't do drugs and buy media companies.

	▲	dist-epoch an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I don't see any qualification on parent post, only saying Musk is bad because he's using drugs. But you are right, so you agree that frequent drug users should not be offered jobs with responsibilities because for example they might drug and drive.