I agree with everything except the last sentence. Reddit does want to push you towards the use of /r/all (or similar) because that's they get more time in front of your eyeballs. The design of the product is pushing you towards that view of everything, so that you end up doing the endless-scrolling thing.
I'm interested by the direction Lemmy (or a similar system) might take. At the moment it's a Reddit-lite clone, which is completely reasonable because that's what people are looking for. But maybe with a different set of incentives (presumably more user-centric), over time it might morph into something different?
This is true, but it's their job to get a balance between guiding new users towards building routine and getting post-onboard users to the content that is more engaging for their personal preferences. They have to have _something_ on the frontpage and the reality is that the subs that serve the most shallow content are the ones that will drive early repeat engagement.
What they've been missing for an age is an equivalent to Twitter's retweets. Retweets deliver you straight to the door of content providers via the people you already follow. You can start with Brian Cox and NDT as signup recommends, and make your way to your preferred scientific niches pretty quickly.
Reddit has crossposts that barely scratch the surface and often make the source sub almost invisible.
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I agree with everything except the last sentence. Reddit does want to push you towards the use of /r/all (or similar) because that's they get more time in front of your eyeballs. The design of the product is pushing you towards that view of everything, so that you end up doing the endless-scrolling thing.
I'm interested by the direction Lemmy (or a similar system) might take. At the moment it's a Reddit-lite clone, which is completely reasonable because that's what people are looking for. But maybe with a different set of incentives (presumably more user-centric), over time it might morph into something different?
This is true, but it's their job to get a balance between guiding new users towards building routine and getting post-onboard users to the content that is more engaging for their personal preferences. They have to have _something_ on the frontpage and the reality is that the subs that serve the most shallow content are the ones that will drive early repeat engagement.
What they've been missing for an age is an equivalent to Twitter's retweets. Retweets deliver you straight to the door of content providers via the people you already follow. You can start with Brian Cox and NDT as signup recommends, and make your way to your preferred scientific niches pretty quickly.
Reddit has crossposts that barely scratch the surface and often make the source sub almost invisible.