[dimmke]

How old are you? Because I feel like Gen Z makes jokes about “Reddit guys” and “Discord mods” but they all absolutely do use those platforms. They’re basically unavoidable.

I’ve seen more than one tiktok with 100k+ likes joking about how they add “reddit.com” to their Google search queries to get real results instead of SEO/sales funnel optimized shit

[colpabar]

I'm a millennial, so I can't really speak for zoomers. But to speculate, I'd say that a lot of people are on discord because if you play video games, you're probably on discord to socialize and/or to use the audio/video chatroom stuff when actually gaming. But the reddit thing seems more like a "lifehack" content thing than anything else. I doubt many people saw that tiktok and created a reddit account because of it, which is what I consider "using reddit". And 100k seems like a lot, but couldn't that just be all the reddit users who also use tiktok?

[alephnerd]

We use it but with a burning sense of hate.

When you go to college, the only anonymous forum you can use is your college's subreddit, when you apply for internships the only forum for somewhat actionable career advice is cscareerquestions, and when applying to Law School or BSchool all the relevant information/tips/guidelines/strategies are all hosted on LawSchoolAdmissions and MBA.

We all know Reddit is a toxic piece of garbage but where else can you find actionable advice at scale?

I haven't seen as much hate for Discord, but Discord has a discovery problem and is still kind of niche.