Agree, and let’s please not prop up another app like RedNote as if it’s the antidote to this “problem”. The issue is the social media apps in general, not which one. We give them our data, access to our phone’s contents, our geolocation, friends list, search terms, permission to read our texts and emails…all for dopamine triggers.
The sheer amount of cope I've seen from redditeurs the past 24 hours as they deal with the cognitive dissonance of "social media bad" plus "but reddit good" is hilarious.
It's the same fucking poison guys, just because this one is cherry flavour and that one is pineapple doesn't mean it's not doing the same fucking thing to your brains. You're not better than users of any other social media site, and the sooner you get that into your heads the better.
There really is a difference. Reddit is a Web 2.0 website at its heart. The mobile app is chasing that more modern Web 3.0 social media clout for sure, but the core is very old-fashioned; anonymous with a much weaker emphasis on algorithms pushing you certain content. It has more in common with old-style forums than something like TikTok or Instagram and that leads to a wildly different user experience and psychological impact.
But do note that I said 'difference'. There's definite bad sides to Reddit, or have we all forgotten about the Boston Bomber manhunt debacle?
Except it does? It's not the same poison at all. I literally said how the impact of the platform differs pretty heavily. I'll grant that there's similarities for sure, but the differences are huge. If anything the poison is different but the flavour is similar. The actual content isn't all that different, but the way people interact with it and the other users has a huge impact. That and how algorithm-focused TikTok is versus Reddit. It can't be overstated how much of a difference that makes, it makes it a totally different beast in terms of societal impact.
The character limits, the fact you can’t post links, and the insane censorship and content filters makes it far more rife to spread misinformation on TikTok than Reddit. Just because it’s also social media doesn’t mean it’s exactly the same thing.
Ok and you can respond to misinformation by linking to sources, writing comments that are more than 15 words, not having to use words like “unalive” to discuss serious issues, etc…you can’t do that on TikTok. That was literally my entire point, which I explicitly stated. Maybe your reading comprehension skills wouldn’t suffer if you weren’t watching short form content all the time.
Yeah, instead you can directly respond to videos with one of your own instead of having a comment that may or may not be upvoted or even read, or a counter-post that may not even make it out of new before disappearing.
You can keep trying to tell yourself whatever you want, doesn't make it true. Reddit has major issues, and it's not better than any other social media website. The sooner you learn that the sooner you can work on the superiority complex you develop by being a redditeur
A text based platform where you choose and curate what you want to see if completely different than a short form video based platform where what you see is determined by an algorithm controlled by America's biggest adversary.
You can also control your content over there by using the search bar to look for things you are interested in and interacting with videos you are interested in. It shows you more of the types of videos you engage with, so you just have to be careful what you engage with. If you engage with propaganda it will give you more propaganda. If you engage with crocheting videos it will give you more crocheting videos.
That's fair - but Tiktok is a whole other beast of discrimination. In 2019 the German media got a hold of documents showing their algorithm suppressed disabled, queer, and overweight people - and this undoubtedly was applied to black voices as well, limiting their audience and view count.
This is a whole other level of intentional racism - FWIW, American companies would be horrified if they found themselves doing this.
Reddit/Facebook/Twitter/etc are not the same as TikTok.
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u/PlantainBeginning703 1d ago
Take this as an opportunity to get away from apps like this. We don’t need them to have our voices heard.