[exergy]

Couldn't disagree more. If I want fun, I'd watch some comedian on YouTube, way higher quality. If I wanted serious discussion, Reddit has too much noise for the signal that it does offer.

The Reddit of today is about posting the "funniest" screenshots from Twitter, things like blackpeopletwitter, whitepeopletwitter, murderedbywords and so on.

[krapp]

>The Reddit of today is about posting the "funniest" screenshots from Twitter, things like blackpeopletwitter, whitepeopletwitter, murderedbywords and so on.

It's easy to say that Reddit has no discussions of merit when only using examples of subreddits which have no intent to have discussions of merit, and focus primarily on memes and light-hearted content. But it's purposely disingenuous to do so. That's usually what people seem to do.

But compare the quality of discussion between Hacker News and the programming subreddits from which stories are usually reposted, or the heavily moderated expert subs like /r/askahistorian, and see if HN really still stands head and shoulders above the rest in terms of quality. In my experience, with the minor exception that HN is allergic to any sort of humor, the experience is about the same.

[exergy]

Yeah I know. People bring up r/science and the history subreddits all the time. And you're right, they do stick to the topic. The trouble is that they're both very siloed. If you don't like those topics all the time, you have to go elsewhere. Hence my comment on signal to noise.

Totally agree about the no humour thing on HN though.

[krapp]

Hacker News tries to be siloed, it's just that the silo is vaguely defined and subjective ("anything that gratifies intellectual curiosity.")