flaagan t1_jbgcaea wrote
Reply to comment by SwagginsYolo420 in How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat by BronzeHeart92
>Nowadays it has the near-monopoly on web forum content to retain users
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>despite newer horrendous layout design.
The funny thing about that is that I would likely never use Reddit for something that I would typically go to an existing forum for, you're not going to find the same type of community and interactions here you would find on a topic-dedicated forum, much less the granular level of discussion and information you'd likely be looking for.
SwagginsYolo420 t1_jbhlo7b wrote
I agree with that generally. Though a big part of that reason I think is most mainstream special interest communities established their main forum sites/communities long prior to the existence of reddit and "web 2.0" social media.
I would say that newer communities tend to coalesce around reddit / twitter / discord first now, because it's the path of least resistance. Communities focused on newer technologies / fandoms / arts from only the last decade or so seem much less likely to have dedicated high-traffic old-school forums now.
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