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Ask HN: Why couldn’t Reddit replace Twitter?

2 pointsby rnmpover 2 years ago
A legitimate question.<p>Celebrities and every day people are notorious for making appearances in Reddit through AMAs.<p>Reddit is a great community already.<p>What’s wrong with either a spin-off feed where you can see content from people rather than communities or something similar?

6 comments

senttoschoolover 2 years ago
Because Reddit is a hive mind due to the way upvote&#x2F;downvote works. It only has one &quot;correct&quot; opinion. Everything else is downvoted and rejected.<p>It&#x27;s mostly an anonymous network while Twitter isn&#x27;t.<p>Lastly, Reddit is controlled by the mods in a way. Mods have all the power. Influencers do not.
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downrightmikeover 2 years ago
It has a down vote button, so idiots don&#x27;t get amplified, they get booted.
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hobbitstanover 2 years ago
&#x27;Reddit is a great community already.&#x27;<p>I remember when Digg started going to hell, then Reddit was created. All the tech folk moved over there. Now Reddit has become an autistic hive mind and people come to HN.
mseepgoodover 2 years ago
Because one is a forum the other is a microblogging platform.
rnmpover 2 years ago
I anticipate the question about cannibalizing communities in favor of individual profiles but I don’t think those two concepts are incompatible.
__warlord__over 2 years ago
Because Reddit has a downvote button. I don&#x27;t think these type of megafon social networks (twitter) plays well with downvotes.
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