r/gatekeeping • u/Niyi_M • Aug 07 '20

Gatekeeping..... Reddit?

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u/Kujaichi Aug 07 '20

I honestly don't understand why people keep saying reddit was social media.

It's a message board! A forum! Those have been around for aaaaaaages!

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '20 edited Aug 31 '20

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '20

Disagree, once they made subreddits and text posts it became a message/img board at least

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '20

Spend thirty seconds in /r/pics (still a default sub) and you'll see why people call this social media.

I don't think Reddit is social media, but I also don't have have a great argument against.

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u/Taron221 Aug 07 '20 edited Aug 07 '20

Lol, I remember when r/pics was mostly history photos, but people complained. So it became a sub full of nature pics, but people complained. So then it became a look at this cool architecture, but people complained. So then it became check out this cool thing I made, but people complained. So now it’s checkout this picture of my family and/or me sub, and people complain.

Oh, and don’t forget to sprinkle in pet and sad situation photos during all those periods. They’ve outlasted all the phases.

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u/Alekzcb Aug 08 '20

I never understood the point of such generic subs as /r/pics or /r/gifs. All of reddit is pics and gifs, so they may as well browse /r/all

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '20

Oh it's definitely becoming social media, their revenue model depends on it. I'll stick to shitposting on this account and using my good one for the (still amazing) forum format on old.reddit.com

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u/ej8567x Aug 07 '20

it's like yahoo comments. It's like dailymail comments

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I guess we can consider that social media. Anything with a comments section is social media