Why does everyone keep leaving reddit out of this group? It is just as big and influential as those other three. Yet keeps flying under the radar when discussing these issues. Destin is a redditor...
Today's political discourse takes place on the public forum of the internet. And front and center of the forum are three primary platforms, youtube, twitter, and facebook.
Why does everyone keep leaving reddit out of this group? It is just as big and influential as those other three. Yet keeps flying under the radar when discussing these issues. Destin is a redditor too, and is well aware of how influential the site is. He's used it himself to promote his channel. So why no mention of it in this video?
I was wondering about this too and found an interview that touches on it a bit. It's of general enough interest that I made another topic for it here but I'll quote here the part most relevant to...
I was wondering about this too and found an interview that touches on it a bit. It's of general enough interest that I made another topic for it here but I'll quote here the part most relevant to the question at hand:
Knowledge@Wharton: Where is Reddit right now in the hierarchy of social media sites?
Lagorio-Chafkin: I’ve come to think of it as the least known and most influential site on the internet. It’s remarkable that it’s the fifth most popular site in the United States with 330 million monthly users who type more than 50,000 words into it every minute. It is the last textual engine of the internet. You know, everyone knows the names Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey. Has anyone heard of Steve Huffman? It’s incredible. He’s a fascinating character, and it made writing this book such a pleasure.
Knowledge@Wharton: Why haven’t the co-founders gotten as much attention as some of the other social media/tech leaders who have had to go before Congress lately?
Lagorio-Chafkin: As a reporter, I called up Sen. Mark Warner’s [D-Virginia] office about this. The senator is interested in starting to investigate the disinformation spreading online during the election. His staff told me, “Well, we’re interested in Reddit. I believe there are problems on Reddit,” but I don’t think they actually reached out to Reddit. I later heard that Reddit itself had to raise its hand and reach out to Warner’s office and say, “Hi, we’re Reddit. Would you like to know about us?”
It’s a site that’s just largely misunderstood and “disunderstood.” It’s a little bit of an intimidating place to outsiders. While there are literally 100,000 communities about anything under the sun, any passion you have, any political interest you have, it has a very steep learning curve. It is not a place where there are shiny, air-brushed influencers or pictures. It is an edgier, scrappier site. Therefore, there are a lot of things like conspiracy theories and pornography on the site. I think users are a little scared to go full into Reddit sometimes. For years, there was roughly one major scandal that shook both Reddit the community and Reddit the company, per year. I think that also is a little intimidating to users.
I don't like how he tries to shield youtube from criticism. Like they said technical solutions don't work, and hoping for human nature to change is naive at best. Plus there's other sites like...
I don't like how he tries to shield youtube from criticism. Like they said technical solutions don't work, and hoping for human nature to change is naive at best. Plus there's other sites like wikipedia that are better at dealing with that kind of issues, it's just not in google $$$ interests to implement real solutions.
If you watch his previous two videos The Future of War, and How It Affects YOU (Multi-Domain Operations) - Smarter Every Day 211 Why Your Newsfeed SUCKS - Smarter Every Day 212 a very clear...
a very clear picture forms: he is trying to make the public more aware of one of the current most important problems on the internet, make them realize how important this is, and start to take action instead of shifting the blame or stay passive.
Now this is nothing new (for example, GCP Grey was making videos about this 7 years ago (This Video Will Make You Angry) but now seems to be the case that there is people not only trying to make you mad about trivial or superficial things but about stuff that could affect your life significantly. And while I do agree with you in that it's sorta annoying how he rapidly disregarded the problem with the platform itself, he has the intention of putting the user in the position of power, so the user can act instead of wait to someone else to solve it, and that outweighs the annoyance for me.
PS and notice that the previous video (212) is sponsored by Google itself throughout MediaWise. And you can view this as in "Google is paying him to shift the blame" or "Google is trying to attack the issue from a different perspective". And BTW, this is not the only channel doing this: Crash Course: Navigating Digital Information.
Why does everyone keep leaving reddit out of this group? It is just as big and influential as those other three. Yet keeps flying under the radar when discussing these issues. Destin is a redditor too, and is well aware of how influential the site is. He's used it himself to promote his channel. So why no mention of it in this video?
I was wondering about this too and found an interview that touches on it a bit. It's of general enough interest that I made another topic for it here but I'll quote here the part most relevant to the question at hand:
I don't like how he tries to shield youtube from criticism. Like they said technical solutions don't work, and hoping for human nature to change is naive at best. Plus there's other sites like wikipedia that are better at dealing with that kind of issues, it's just not in google $$$ interests to implement real solutions.
If you watch his previous two videos
a very clear picture forms: he is trying to make the public more aware of one of the current most important problems on the internet, make them realize how important this is, and start to take action instead of shifting the blame or stay passive.
Now this is nothing new (for example, GCP Grey was making videos about this 7 years ago (This Video Will Make You Angry) but now seems to be the case that there is people not only trying to make you mad about trivial or superficial things but about stuff that could affect your life significantly. And while I do agree with you in that it's sorta annoying how he rapidly disregarded the problem with the platform itself, he has the intention of putting the user in the position of power, so the user can act instead of wait to someone else to solve it, and that outweighs the annoyance for me.
PS and notice that the previous video (212) is sponsored by Google itself throughout MediaWise. And you can view this as in "Google is paying him to shift the blame" or "Google is trying to attack the issue from a different perspective". And BTW, this is not the only channel doing this: Crash Course: Navigating Digital Information.