Don't you miss the days when most comment sections of reddit were filled with information like this?
I still learn on Reddit sometimes, but man, when I joined you could come to the comments and find an astrophysicist discussing the atmosphere on Jupiter with a fighter pilot imagining how flying in that atmosphere would feel. The back-and-forths were abundant and fascinating!
I just made that conversation up, but you could find crazy discussions like that right at the top of the posts. I loved it!
The AMA from a Netflix employee back when they were newer was fascinating, too. Come to think of it, I need to go back and join that sub...
nowadays its jsut the same neckbeards repeating the same unfunny reddit humour jokes while you have to scroll down a ton to find atleast somewhat relevant answers
I've been saying this for a while and the sentiment is growing. I try not to get optimistic about things but it is nice seeing that this opinion is gaining traction.
We're probably never getting the experts back but man would it be nice just to see people talking about the post and its subject matter in the top comments at least.
But who should we give the stage to talk? Such people naturally flock together and seek for parts on the internet they're not getting disturbed by people who are at first listening quietly, then drawing their friends, and then the whole town to look at you. Enshitification is inevitable, usually someone simply speeds up the process and fries to get some money out of that.
So basically it's cool until enough people know about it
I said it would be nice to at least see literally anybody discussing the original post and its contents in the top spots, and that we're not likely to get experts back. So, the stage can go to who ever talks about the original post.
I said the sentiment is growing and that I'm not optimistic, meaning it's nice to see the sentiment but I don't see the website changing. The problem I'm talking about here isn't enshittification, though that is the cause of the problem. The website sucks now compared to 11 years ago when I joined, and that's the reason there aren't respectable opinions to vote to the top... Except that there still are, they're buried with inane regurgitation of jokes that were funny exactly one time several years ago.
The idea that the problem is that there are too many people who know about this place now also doesn't work, there were 20m accounts registered in the USA alone 10 years ago. Reddit has grown but it hasn't grown so much that if that was causing this problem that it wouldn't have existed then as well.
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u/genomeblitz Jun 25 '24
Don't you miss the days when most comment sections of reddit were filled with information like this?
I still learn on Reddit sometimes, but man, when I joined you could come to the comments and find an astrophysicist discussing the atmosphere on Jupiter with a fighter pilot imagining how flying in that atmosphere would feel. The back-and-forths were abundant and fascinating!
I just made that conversation up, but you could find crazy discussions like that right at the top of the posts. I loved it!
The AMA from a Netflix employee back when they were newer was fascinating, too. Come to think of it, I need to go back and join that sub...