So does anyone use reddit?

 

I've been on it for a year but only started really using it in the last couple months. It's occasionally interesting.

 

I subscribe to Cincinnati subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/cincinnati

I follow enough people on Twitter (that I know are active Redditors) and go to a lot of the sites that Reddit typically pulls from for issues that are important to me that I don't feel like it would add much for me to regularly follow and participate in it.  There are some shows and such that I care about that have Reddit pages that I'll visit and I enjoy the occasional AMA, but that's about it.

I use it, but prefer Fark

I'm a frequent visitor. I've never posted there, but over the past two years I've come across an incredible amount of interesting information there.  Now, that's not to say there isn't a plethora of stupidity also, but overall it's a wealth of knowledge. Especially when there is turmoil overseas, you get people right in the middle of a war zone posting to reddit!

I'm personally not a huge fan. I like the idea, but many of the subreddits and comments sections just get filled with the same meme-related stuff. But that probably happens a lot less in the Cincinnati subreddit.

Yeah, I'm only a fan of it the Cincinnati subreddit though there is probably a lot to learn in other specific, non-meme related subreddits.

 

As a platform it has great potential to become a meaningful news source.

Yes. Use it frequently. With customization, it is a very useful site, and potentially a massive timesink.

*Topic rises from the dead...

 

OK I have avoided Reddit but with the war in Ukraine I have been lurking in certain areas a lot and I have found that there are numerous little niche subreddits that are not bad at all and are quite useful and entertaining, as opposed to the toxic cesspool that some subreddits are(and social media in general), so I joined but have not posted anything yet.

 

i have a love/hate with reddit as i suspect most people do.

 

the good is they bring the news, especially with niche things. people post cool stuff both current and old and the thread headers and op post links are interesting or funny. i mean who doesnt love old school cool, mildly interesting, tifu and etc. threads like that?

 

the downside is the commentary. the toxicity, troll farming and annoying af virtue signaling is off the charts, so i rarely post other than niche forums. but worst of all i hate the stupid format they picked up years ago that ranks comments and replies. everything gets buried and discussion is impossible. to be fair its not really an issue on any niche forums, just the popular ones.

Edited October 18, 20222 yr by Gramarye
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I have an account, though rarely post. BTW the roman totale XVII on Reddit who is a fairly frequent poster on Cleveland-related threads is not me. 
The Cleveland sub is endless ‘who has the best pirogies?’ threads and is pretty boring. The Guardians sub is actually quite entertaining, with a lot of good in-jokes and humor. 

Also the football forums can be fun. LOL at the endless Harbaugh jokes in the College Football threads.

r/Cincinnati is surprisingly based and usually not too toxic

Good God has anyone used the official reddit app? It's absolutely atrocious.

^ Yes and yes!

I just use the mobile website, which isn't great either.  I've heard the official app absolutely drains battery with all the data mining it does.

Wow, the mobile site is pretty rough too.

 

I've been using Reddit is Fun for years with no issue. And now that it's going away, I've really been trying with the new app the last few days. But this official app is virtually unusable. Nothing wrong with incorporating ads, which I believe the third party apps bypassed, but it's just so ugly and hard to enjoy. All the outcry is justified. 

On 6/10/2023 at 10:20 AM, TBideon said:

Good God has anyone used the official reddit app? It's absolutely atrocious.

 

I have only used the official Reddit app for a long while now.  I was too lazy to look at alternatives like Apollo, RiF, Sync, or Relay.  Also, I used BaconReader for a brief time and didn't like it, so that dissuaded me from giving other third-party apps a try.  Given the extraordinary outpouring of user support for Apollo, though, maybe I should have given it a try.  I'm not short on nits to pick with the official reddit app.  Mostly, though, I just use the desktop site.