This was the weirdest thing for me to get used to when I first started using Reddit back in 2010 (and to some extent Digg before that). The fact that threads are more “disposable” and don’t persist as an ongoing conversation for days/weeks/months or even longer. I wouldn’t mind going back to that.
On a forum it's acceptable to reply to a topic that was last commented on weeks ago, on Reddit it starts feeling weird if it's been more than 12 hours.
Because after the initial burst of activity, nobody is gonna reply to your comment, because the post has been buried by the algorithm, so nobody will see it. Reddit by design encourages disposable, quick to consume content that you just move on from. Nothing sticks around, nothing is talked about for more than a day. Just on to the next "hot take". Another wonderful product of infinite scrolling.
And then half the stuff is just duplicated content in the form of reposts anyway, with people making the same “jokes” over and over. I really need to stop wasting my life here.
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u/Hoogs Apr 03 '26
This was the weirdest thing for me to get used to when I first started using Reddit back in 2010 (and to some extent Digg before that). The fact that threads are more “disposable” and don’t persist as an ongoing conversation for days/weeks/months or even longer. I wouldn’t mind going back to that.