Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable
There is a phenomenon when older and older groups enter a social platform, the quality of that platform deteriorates for the younger generation, and perhaps maybe even overall.
We saw this with facebook, We saw this with twitter, and we&#x27;re now seeing this with Reddit.<p>(yes, there is twitter outside of tech, and it&#x27;s content quality is extremely poor and juvenile)<p>Reddit, at one point, was just science, memes, an occasional atheist post, and and A list Celebrity AMA every other day - a platform that provided niche content mostly for age 18-30 year old Americans.<p>Now with the flood of all sorts of ideas from all fronts, It has become way too overwhelming to really digest what everyone has to offer - Diving deep into reddit will eventually and inevitably get anyone upset and bothered.<p>As Reddit builds its foundation upon favoring ad populum, it is starting to become evident that not every voice should be heard, especially when the average american individual is as uneducated as he or she is.<p>“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that &#x27;my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.&#x27;”<p>― Isaac Asimov<p>I&#x27;d like to one up Asimov - that it is not a false notion, but literally the core tenet of what democracy is.<p>That all opinions are of equal value.<p>And in all honesty... this is dangerous.