What's stopping Reddit from replacing Facebook and X?

[Heatman]

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I think it's something possible that can be done with a few adjustments and creative tweaking because Facebook, X and some other main stream social media platforms are no longer what they used to be.

What's stopping Reddit from becoming the next big thing in social media in replacing Facebook and X? How long do you think that's going to take or is it that Reddit doesn't want to overtake Facebook, X and others?

 

[Dismal_Bliss]

Reddit follows the free forums model of yesteryear. It's about the community, just like Admin Junkies and all of us who are running forums.

But social media caters to ME-ism, which is an unfortunate trait that modern society is hooked on. "Look at me" "Listen to me" "Ain't my life just beautiful" "Certainly you would want to friend ME" "Look at all MY followers". Reddit simply cannot offer that.

 

[Carlos]

Reddit's downfall is the ideology and/or ideologues that moderates the subs. At some point reddit is going to have a massive riot, and bleed traffic as if it hasn't already.

Its eventually going to transform into a mini-4chan. Like, the extremes.

Reddit follows the free forums model of yesteryear. It's about the community, just like Admin Junkies and all of us who are running forums.

Yes, and no. The design of Reddit is vastly different from most "free-forum" solutions on the market. Reddit is basically autonomous "forums" as you indirectly said. I don't know how they designed everything, because it allows you to create a new topic, that acts like a separate forum, and under that "sub" is threaded posts. You got a thread starter post, but under that text is the replies.

But social media caters to ME-ism, which is an unfortunate trait that modern society is hooked on. "Look at me" "Listen to me" "Ain't my life just beautiful" "Certainly you would want to friend ME" "Look at all MY followers". Reddit simply cannot offer that.

But reddit profiles has a bit of social media. Just a lil bit. However, the fact that it's got a different design, there is a yes and no answer here, too.

See, each sub has a moderation team, and an admin. Ok? In theory this could work, and isolate the bad apples, but what if those mods are ideologues? Then you have communists trying to stifle people from becoming famous.

 

[Baw$e]

Reddit will never replace Facebook. Facebook is more than a forum. I like Reddit though.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I wish Facebook and X would cease to exist but they're here to stay. Reddit has been quite popular within the last decade or so, and just within the past 6 or 7 years it's been competing against other social media platforms and doing well but it will probably never overtake Facebook or X.

 

[Carlos]

I wish Facebook and X would cease to exist but they're here to stay. Reddit has been quite popular within the last decade or so, and just within the past 6 or 7 years it's been competing against other social media platforms and doing well but it will probably never overtake Facebook or X.

Reddit is 80% leftist ideologues.

 

[Heatman]

Reddit's downfall is the ideology and/or ideologues that moderates the subs. At some point reddit is going to have a massive riot, and bleed traffic as if it hasn't already.

Its eventually going to transform into a mini-4chan. Like, the extremes.

I have had some nasty experience with some of the moderation team on different subs on Reddit. Some of them allow their personal feelings cloud their judgement in how they run the sub.

 

[Carlos]

I have had some nasty experience with some of the moderation team on different subs on Reddit. Some of them allow their personal feelings cloud their judgement in how they run the sub.

Same. I had similar experience. I didn't even advertise my site. That's the weirdest part. It got worse after that. I stopped using the site after that. I'll use the site sometimes, but I'm not the recurring user Reddit owners/execs wants. Those mods are killing the site little by little, brick by brick. Eventually everyone will understand what Reddit is, and will riot.

Its happening now with YouTube, but YouTube is big... like "too big to fail."

 

[Tracy]

As mentioned, they target two different types of users and what they are wanting to do.
Doubtful one will supplant the other.

 

[joelr]

Facebook has built a really strong ecosystem of other features like Marketplace, Dating, Groups, etc that keep bringing people back.

 

[Heatman]

Same. I had similar experience. I didn't even advertise my site. That's the weirdest part. It got worse after that. I stopped using the site after that. I'll use the site sometimes, but I'm not the recurring user Reddit owners/execs wants. Those mods are killing the site little by little, brick by brick. Eventually everyone will understand what Reddit is, and will riot.

Its happening now with YouTube, but YouTube is big... like "too big to fail."

It's seriously very annoying. There was a time when I was suspended in a particular sub. I think it was a movies or TV show sub. I contacted one of the mod but didn't get a feedback after 3 days. I asked why it took 3 days to get a reply, the only thing he told me was he got another life outside being a mod on the sub in a very rude manner.

 

[Tracy]

I have had some nasty experience with some of the moderation team on different subs on Reddit. Some of them allow their personal feelings cloud their judgement in how they run the sub.

That applies everywhere. It is a rare person that doesn't let their personality enter into decisions.
I've referred people my site on a few of the astro subs on Reddit and never had an issue, but those referrals are usually to articles or reviews that are pertinent to the niche.

 

[Carlos]

It's seriously very annoying. There was a time when I was suspended in a particular sub. I think it was a movies or TV show sub. I contacted one of the mod but didn't get a feedback after 3 days. I asked why it took 3 days to get a reply, the only thing he told me was he got another life outside being a mod on the sub in a very rude manner.

This is not happening everywhere, like someone else said..

You just need to figure out the website's bias.

Twitter/X = Balanced now. But WAS lefty. Overwhelmingly lefty.
Reddit = Somewhat balanced, but overwhelmingly lefty both in users and mods.
YouTube = Somewhat balanced, but YouTube wants it to be lefty.
Rumble = Somewhat balanced, but Rumble is seen as "right wing."
Twitch = EXTREMELY left. All the way to the left, both on users and mods.
Kick = Extreme left. Across the board.
Facebook = FB corporate tries their best to say "we're balanced" but ALL lefty.
Instagram = Balanced, but it's facebook.
Threads = Facebook, and left. They designed Threads right after the Twitter/X exodus after Elon took over.
BlueSky = Left.
Minds = The code has balanced design (hell, one of the taglines is "choose your algorithm"), but left.
Tumblr = Extremely left. Degenerate.
Tiktok = Extremely left. It's China, soooo....
Gettr = Right.

The key is to stay in the confines of the market. Don't talk too much politics on platforms that has an ax to grind. Reddit is communist from the moderation side. But on the users side, there are some "right leaning" folks, but for the most part, users are lefty. Shut down conversations. If you say something they don't like, you get drown out.

That's what you experienced.