Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "Redditors Gave Up" video.

The fact that people unironically look up news on social media sites because they're too lazy to read news from actual sources blows me away. What's the point of filling your brain with biased misinformation? You would be better off not reading anything at all.
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@MassiveDestructionSP Reddit literally has no content by definition, unless you consider the text posts themselves to be valuable. There is no system in place for Reddit to serve files. It's literally just a text forum with links to other websites in every OP.
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@MassiveDestructionSP Google Search has far more value because it shows you things that are relevant to what you're looking for. Reddit shows you a smattering of posts that are vaguely related to a topic, but must typically accommodate a wide variety of discussion. This means you'll get anything from in-depth analysis/support to a stupid image macro as an OP. Ultimately, your comparison is totally inappropriate because Google and platforms like Reddit serve very different purposes. Google exists purely to serve information. Reddit is a discussion platform, which means that a user may not always know what they are looking for when they browse the site, but fails at that because it both fails to filter discussions adequately and incentivizes its users to subvert genuine discussion (updoots). An anonymous imageboard (4chan) has the same problems with content filtering, but has fewer issues with disingenuous discussion because OPs are heavily policed by the community for being low-effort and there is no way to signal to other users that you are a "better user" through some kind of point system. You must rely on the content of your post. There's a reason why most of the famous internet memes originated from 4chan, back in its heyday. On the other hand, a more traditional discussion forum filters its topics more adequately with subforums (Support, General, Off-Topic, etc.) but still has similar problems with communities becoming too incestuous and abusive moderators. Both of these options, while flawed, still succeed at their jobs better than Reddit does. Both of them also allow you to post original content. Also, please show me a Reddit post that hosts its own image or video. I'd love to see that, would be a first.
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@felixisme You are correct, and I have since learned that. It's somewhat of a surprise to me, since I figured they were not willing to pay the cost for that, but I guess they wanted to shake off their reputation for being the website that steals content from other websites.
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@zeppelins4ever I'd like to ask what queries you are asking. Or perhaps request that you reflect on the solutions you got and re-examine whether they were actually good. Because every time I get answers from Reddit, it's shit. Stack Exchange does the answers thing, but better. Still has the piss-ant mods and communities though.
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I honest-to-God can't understand the appeal of the website. Every time I happen to stumble upon a Reddit thread because it's the only promising result on Google relevant to my search query, it's always some dumb snarky asshat who gets updooted all the way to the top instead of a helpful answer. Every time there's an in-depth discussion that branches off a reply I have to go to a totally separate page just to read that one discussion. Every time you post double-spaces are inserted for no reason. Everything you post has to be hosted somewhere else. Yet for some reason many Redditors seem to act like they're very original and creative people. There are no content filters. The only thing posts have in common is an abstract connection to the topic described in the subreddit. On the front page, you will see some kind of heartfelt open letter to the developers if the subreddit is about a game, right next to some stupid meme linked from YouTube. Why not have a tag system like Stack Exchange? You have your stupid updoots point system, so people will tag their posts in hopes of getting updoots. That whole system is fucking cancer by the way.
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@iamthewizardwhoknocks2845 Strong words from someone who gets their news from their fucking grandma. "Corporate" media is the only source of truth available. You have to cast a wide net, collect a lot of info, and sort it out yourself. Anything else is just being lazy.
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There are a ton of competitors. Forgive me for saying this, but ignorant people like you just don't bother looking for them. The level of naivete is staggering. What you really want is a place that your friends tell you is cool, meaning a place that is already popular. That doesn't "just happen" overnight, you have to put in a small amount of effort and look for a place to make it popular over a long period of time. This kind of mentality is what led the "protesters" to go back to Reddit in the first place; you're no better than they are.
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@beegyoshi6525 I like how people pretend that we lost something valuable when Twitter was bought by Elon. As if that site hadn't been worthless for years already.
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