This article looks at Reddit as a "comment economy." Beneath the rhetoric of community and information sharing, the platform's economic incentives favor conformity, reaction, endless engagement, and compulsive commenting over independent thought, meaningful discourse, and the exchange of knowledge.

Reddit’s revenue ultimately depends upon the creation of, extended attention to and the scrolling through of massive amounts of comments. This produces advertising opportunities, data value, repeat visits and valuable user engagement metrics.

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Why isn't his project valuable? You're saying other people should share it rather than the author sharing it. But how are other people going to find out about it first?

Based on the votes, your opinion seems popular, but I don't find it rational.

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    cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/58189605

    What it looks like:

    Here's an example of such a post: https://sh.itjust.works/post/58082125

    They uploaded an image and then included a URL as the body/text.

    On Lemmy, it looks like an image post, with a small expando to the right of the title that you can click to show the body:

    Why you should stop doing it:

    1. It makes high-quality posts look the same as low-quality ones.

    I automatically downvote most image/meme submissions and posts with bad/non-descriptive titles for quality control. Linking directly to a source is how you make a high-quality submission. You can include screenshots or quotes in the body of the post.

    1. I could start clicking the expando next to the title to check if a source was provided, but there's going to be a user option to block image posts in the next lemmy update (v0.20), so that format is not good since lots of people will start to automatically block them.

    2. You can put images in the body of the posts.

    Why should anyone care?

    Low-quality, easy-to-digest content will dominate and drown out everything else if no one does anything to limit it. It degrades the internet and our brains.

    A blog that elaborates:

    The Cargo Cult of The Ennui Engine https://medium.com/@max.p.schlienger/the-cargo-cult-of-the-ennui-engine-890c541cebcb

     

    cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/58189605

    What it looks like:

    Here's an example of such a post: https://sh.itjust.works/post/58082125

    They uploaded an image and then included a URL as the body/text.

    On Lemmy, it looks like an image post, with a small expando to the right of the title that you can click to show the body:

    Why you should stop doing it:

    1. It makes high-quality posts look the same as low-quality ones.

    I automatically downvote most image/meme submissions and posts with bad/non-descriptive titles for quality control. Linking directly to a source is how you make a high-quality submission. You can include screenshots or quotes in the body of the post.

    1. I could start clicking the expando next to the title to check if a source was provided, but there's going to be a user option to block image posts in the next lemmy update (v0.20), so that format is not good since lots of people will start to automatically block them.

    2. You can put images in the body of the posts.

    Why should anyone care?

    Low-quality, easy-to-digest content will dominate and drown out everything else if no one does anything to limit it. It degrades the internet and our brains.

    A blog that elaborates:

    The Cargo Cult of The Ennui Engine https://medium.com/@max.p.schlienger/the-cargo-cult-of-the-ennui-engine-890c541cebcb

     

    What it looks like:

    Here's an example of such a post: https://sh.itjust.works/post/58082125

    They uploaded an image and then included a URL as the body/text.

    On Lemmy, it looks like an image post, with a small expando to the right of the title that you can click to show the body:

    Why you should stop doing it:

    1. It makes high-quality posts look the same as low-quality ones.

    I automatically downvote most image/meme submissions and posts with bad/non-descriptive titles for quality control. Linking directly to a source is how you make a high-quality submission. You can include screenshots or quotes in the body of the post.

    1. I could start clicking the expando next to the title to check if a source was provided, but there's going to be a user option to block image posts in the next lemmy update (v0.20), so that format is not good since lots of people will start to automatically block them.

    2. You can put images in the body of the posts.

    Why should anyone care?

    Low-quality, easy-to-digest content will dominate and drown out everything else if no one does anything to limit it. It degrades the internet and our brains.

    A blog that elaborates:

    The Cargo Cult of The Ennui Engine https://medium.com/@max.p.schlienger/the-cargo-cult-of-the-ennui-engine-890c541cebcb

     

    cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/26060585

    You should use archive.org or archive.today links.

    The best way to influence the Domain Authority metric is to improve your site’s overall SEO health, with a particular focus on the quality and quantity of external links pointing to your site.

    You can use the Wayback machine addon to easily get archived links https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wayback-machine_new/.

    And a bookmarklet for archive.today:

    javascript:void(open('https://archive.today/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(document.location)))
    

    FYI, if you’re worried about archive.today going down and references being lost, you can manually leave in the original URL by adding https://archive.ph/o/ in front of any URL, after you archive it. IE: https://archive.ph/o/https://sh.itjust.works/post/26060585 will redirect to the archived page, if it exists.

     

    cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/12881747

    r/redditalternatives thread: This is why I don't trust anything on reddit. A r/modcoord thread full of anti-fediverse comments, and all of my pro-fediverse comments are removed and the mods won't answer why. https://web.archive.org/web/20240111205116/https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/193iuf1/this_is_why_i_dont_trust_anything_on_reddit_a/

    Content of deleted post https://archive.ph/cV8X6

    Removed comments https://web.archive.org/web/20240111211111/https://www.reveddit.com/y/briangutaccess/

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