Ask HN: Why couldn’t Reddit replace Twitter?

2 points by rnmp 3 years ago | 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?

senttoschool 3 years ago |

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.

gsatic 3 years ago | |

Interesting point about Influencers. Havent seen that before. Didnt realize Influencers have a harder time on reddit. So Influencers require a different architecture.

rnmp 3 years ago | |

Funny enough, I posted this on Reddit too and it got moderated out.

downrightmike 3 years ago |

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

senttoschool 3 years ago | |

You mean alternative opinions don't get amplified, they get booted.

Reddit has a hive mind. It will not accept anything other than the "correct" opinion.

downrightmike 3 years ago | | |

Reddit is probably the most correct (best) hive mind available. And is far more valuable than most places to search for resolution for problems that actually work. If someone is a regressive idiot, they should keep their mouth shut, just like they should in real life.

hobbitstan 3 years ago |

'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.

mseepgood 3 years ago |

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

rnmp 3 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__ 3 years ago |

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

tlb 3 years ago | |

It'd be a one-line-of-code change to make the downvote button do nothing. I assume they've tried it and rainbows and unicorns did not suddenly appear.