Funny, just to be a contrarian I'm blocking Reddit by default because the site is infested with dark patterns and the overconfident. It's been a long time since the average person on Reddit knew more than me about the things I'm interested in.
I find myself reading more Wordpress blogs nowadays of all things, and while I read through a lot of self-promoters and blogspam, the friction of running your own site tends to select for people who demonstrate a minimum of thoughtfulness and effort and maturity. Only big social media I'm still on is YouTube.
People look at Reddit search results on Google in no small part because Google is not a good search engine. It honestly has regressed to Altavista quality. Reddit is better than looking at Pinterest and Quora and AI generated SEO spam but that doesn't mean it's good, it's getting worse every year and its crossed a threshold for me where I feel using the site makes me stupider.
I find myself reading more Wordpress blogs nowadays of all things, and while I read through a lot of self-promoters and blogspam, the friction of running your own site tends to select for people who demonstrate a minimum of thoughtfulness and effort and maturity. Only big social media I'm still on is YouTube.
People look at Reddit search results on Google in no small part because Google is not a good search engine. It honestly has regressed to Altavista quality. Reddit is better than looking at Pinterest and Quora and AI generated SEO spam but that doesn't mean it's good, it's getting worse every year and its crossed a threshold for me where I feel using the site makes me stupider.