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Johannes Ernst

#Twitter is better off in the migration to the #Fediverse than #Reddit is.

Reddit network effects mostly come one subreddit at a time, while Twitter network effects come from the entire Twitter user base.

I think.

13 Jun 2023 at 1:19 | Open on social.coop
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Rich Felker

@J12t I'm not so sure. Twitter is entirely peer pressure to stay or move. Reddit... if the subreddits you want to be involved in close down and move, you have to follow or create a newsplintered alternative (likely with new mods no one likes) on Reddit. No?

13 Jun 2023 at 1:43 | Open on hachyderm.io
shreyan

@J12t 🤔 if a few major subreddits migrate, that could move a significant portion of Reddit's userbase in a way that isn't possible with Twitter. But bigger subreddits are less likely to migrate anyways...

13 Jun 2023 at 1:59 | Open on mstdn.social
Zell

@J12t "network effect", in the sense that it's applied to Twitter or Facebook, is almost non-existent for reddit. It's a reddit meme that reddit users actively hide their usernames from people, but there's a whole lot of truth to that. Reddit is not a place for the kind of social interaction that results in social networks. The structure of a link aggregator in general is always focused on the topic, never the participants.

We may talk about a reddit community in general, or some subreddit communities, but even when there are well known people, they aren't people you will miss.

Moreover, reddit has the common statistic "90% consume, 9% interact, 1% create"... The vast majority of reddit users do not contribute to the conversation... And they won't have any ties to a specific site. If a new, more accessable link aggregator pops up, one resistant to enshittyfication, it will be extremely easy to move .

@J12t "network effect", in the sense that it's applied to Twitter or Facebook, is almost non-existent for reddit. It's a reddit meme that reddit users actively hide their usernames from people, but there's a whole lot of truth to that. Reddit is not a place for the kind of social interaction that results in social networks. The structure of a link aggregator in general is always focused on the topic, never the participants.

13 Jun 2023 at 3:25 | Open on kolektiva.social
Chancerubbage

@J12t @mastodonmigration

Reddit became the new Usenet, surviving by attrition. Reddit is about moderated group discussion on a given topic. Compiled FAQS

The twitter paradigm is much more random in nature, microblogged thought. A dad joke might follow a news headline, a pet photo, a history fact, all from the same mind. A bouillabaisse of chaos

13 Jun 2023 at 5:14 | Open on mastodon.social
Jeff Atwood
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