At the individual level … people have control over their experiences, curating a set of content and users that is predictable and navigable. At the platform level, … seem to have a symbiotic relationship with large communities. By breaking up broader topical niches … likely help to keep a larger set of users engaged. (HwangFoote 2021)
What about relationships?
If Facebook is people you know sharing things you don’t care about, Reddit is things you care about shared by people you don’t know. (QUARTZ 2018)
Reddit has cleaned up many of its controversial communities but other problematic subs persist as often discussed on Ovarit.
(Lagorio-Chafkin 2018, “We are the nerds”)
What rubric would you use to exclude inappropriate content? (10 mins)
Since 2021, content is prohibited if it is:
The job of policing … the community team, the trust-and-safety team, and the anti-evil team—which are sometimes described, respectively, as good cop, bad cop, and RoboCop. (Marantz 2018)
Write a 3-minute paper predicting Reddit’s likely future five years from now.
What was your prediction of Reddit’s future five years from now?