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by wcchandler
785 days ago
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Reddit doesn't provide value to me anymore. I've been toying around with the idea of building out what I once used Reddit for - news from the Internet. Obviously, it's about 20 years post Reddit's inception, so I've been brainstorming how that would look today. I know I want a skimfeed-like "clean" site with OpenGraph support, but what else? Do we even need comments anymore? I'm half tempted to feed articles into AI, and get them to generate a few dozen comments. Then let users upvote those comments accordingly. Nobody can generate their own comments. Could that approach be fine tuned to a useful site? Or would it turn into a bigger echo chamber with everyone being racist? [1][2] 1 - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/microsoft-shuts-down-ai-chatbot... 2 - https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/advanced-ai-chatbots-... |
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Since the very beginning, the only thing of value on reddit was the comments. If you do away with comments, then you will only ever see content from people who can be bothered to learn how to use Wordpress or whatever and post it to a blog. For those starting out, that sounds screaming into the void, so they never start. Commenting is a much more casual and approachable way to provide specialized, detailed content to those who are already proven interested, and you're virtually guaranteed that at least one person out there will give you the attention your effort earned.
Any social media that doesn't allow this is either dead on arrival, or popularity is heavily manipulated by some industry heavyweight who can make it popular despite its uselessness.