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Ask HN: Why couldn’t Reddit replace Twitter?

2 points by rnmp ↗ HN
A legitimate question.

Celebrities and every day people are notorious for making appearances in Reddit through AMAs.

Reddit is a great community already.

What’s wrong with either a spin-off feed where you can see content from people rather than communities or something similar?

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rnmp
I anticipate the question about cannibalizing communities in favor of individual profiles but I don’t think those two concepts are incompatible.
hobbitstan
'Reddit is a great community already.'

I remember when Digg started going to hell, then Reddit was created. All the tech folk moved over there. Now Reddit has become an autistic hive mind and people come to HN.

__warlord__
Because Reddit has a downvote button. I don't think these type of megafon social networks (twitter) plays well with downvotes.
tlb
It'd be a one-line-of-code change to make the downvote button do nothing. I assume they've tried it and rainbows and unicorns did not suddenly appear.
downrightmike
It has a down vote button, so idiots don't get amplified, they get booted.
senttoschool
You mean alternative opinions don't get amplified, they get booted.

Reddit has a hive mind. It will not accept anything other than the "correct" opinion.

downrightmike
Reddit is probably the most correct (best) hive mind available. And is far more valuable than most places to search for resolution for problems that actually work. If someone is a regressive idiot, they should keep their mouth shut, just like they should in real life.
senttoschool
Reddit is not much different than Youtube comments or IG comments. Just because people are upvoted a lot for being "politically correct" doesn't mean that they are correct.
senttoschool
Because Reddit is a hive mind due to the way upvote/downvote works. It only has one "correct" opinion. Everything else is downvoted and rejected.

It's mostly an anonymous network while Twitter isn't.

Lastly, Reddit is controlled by the mods in a way. Mods have all the power. Influencers do not.

gsatic
Interesting point about Influencers. Havent seen that before. Didnt realize Influencers have a harder time on reddit. So Influencers require a different architecture.
rnmp
Funny enough, I posted this on Reddit too and it got moderated out.
mseepgood
Because one is a forum the other is a microblogging platform.