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Ask HN: Why couldn’t Reddit replace Twitter?

by rnmp on 12/19/22, 6:41 AM with 12 comments

A legitimate question.

Celebrities and every day people are notorious for making appearances in Reddit through AMAs.

Reddit is a great community already.

What’s wrong with either a spin-off feed where you can see content from people rather than communities or something similar?

  • by senttoschool on 12/19/22, 7:40 AM

    Because Reddit is a hive mind due to the way upvote/downvote works. It only has one "correct" opinion. Everything else is downvoted and rejected.

    It's mostly an anonymous network while Twitter isn't.

    Lastly, Reddit is controlled by the mods in a way. Mods have all the power. Influencers do not.

  • by downrightmike on 12/19/22, 7:36 AM

    It has a down vote button, so idiots don't get amplified, they get booted.

  • by hobbitstan on 12/19/22, 6:48 AM

    'Reddit is a great community already.'

    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.

  • by mseepgood on 12/19/22, 8:15 AM

    Because one is a forum the other is a microblogging platform.

  • by rnmp on 12/19/22, 6:42 AM

    I anticipate the question about cannibalizing communities in favor of individual profiles but I don’t think those two concepts are incompatible.

  • by __warlord__ on 12/19/22, 7:27 AM

    Because Reddit has a downvote button. I don't think these type of megafon social networks (twitter) plays well with downvotes.