I could see the paradigm shifting over the years on reddit. They don’t approach the internet as a knowledge base but a personal assistant chat. That’s when I knew the value of the site was on the down swing.
This year has been dramatic. I’ve seen a big increase of users with quality content doing deletes in protest of Reddit. And the shift to sites like Lemmy that are not as favored by search engines.
Reddit should have gone the other direction, become a non-profit, eliminate advertising, go back to open sourcing the code like they used to, and run on donations. Cut their staff of people that had anything to do with advertising and trying to market the platform.
Questions that were previously asked (repeatedly) would either be downvoted or answered with a link to an earlier question with answers.
The latter is the case for Askhistorians. r/fitness has an extensive wiki, which answered basic and more advanced questions, and a daily “simple questions thread”. Lots of answers in that thread are basically links to the wiki.
It requires a lot of moderation (most of the threads/answers were deleted very quickly in those subs), but it made it into some of the most qualitive subs out there.
It is to be expected though for certain topics where most questions have been asked and answered by now (history, older games,…). You might come up with an interesting question, but most likely, someone else has come up with it before you.
But many people are bad at searching (or are lazy or narcissits) so post it anyway. It’s low effort for them, but very annoying for people that have been part of the community for a while. So many subs where moderation was not as strict will suffer from this.
Given how much worse searching things on the fediverse is, we might see the same issues here in time.
I could see the paradigm shifting over the years on reddit. They don’t approach the internet as a knowledge base but a personal assistant chat. That’s when I knew the value of the site was on the down swing.
This year has been dramatic. I’ve seen a big increase of users with quality content doing deletes in protest of Reddit. And the shift to sites like Lemmy that are not as favored by search engines.
Reddit should have gone the other direction, become a non-profit, eliminate advertising, go back to open sourcing the code like they used to, and run on donations. Cut their staff of people that had anything to do with advertising and trying to market the platform.
The best subs weren’t like this though.
Questions that were previously asked (repeatedly) would either be downvoted or answered with a link to an earlier question with answers.
The latter is the case for Askhistorians. r/fitness has an extensive wiki, which answered basic and more advanced questions, and a daily “simple questions thread”. Lots of answers in that thread are basically links to the wiki.
It requires a lot of moderation (most of the threads/answers were deleted very quickly in those subs), but it made it into some of the most qualitive subs out there.
It is to be expected though for certain topics where most questions have been asked and answered by now (history, older games,…). You might come up with an interesting question, but most likely, someone else has come up with it before you.
But many people are bad at searching (or are lazy or narcissits) so post it anyway. It’s low effort for them, but very annoying for people that have been part of the community for a while. So many subs where moderation was not as strict will suffer from this.
Given how much worse searching things on the fediverse is, we might see the same issues here in time.