• birthday_attack@lemm.ee
    35·
    10 months ago

    I find it odd that they changed their tagline from “the front page of the Internet” to “the heart of the Internet.” Reddit is certainly a massive hub for discussion, but “compassionate” is not the first association I have with Reddit conversations. Smug condescension, certainly. Frothing mob mentality, often. But compassion? Rare, at best.

    I suppose that Reddit may be trying to simply manifest their hopes for the platform into a reality, but I don’t think it’s that easy. The Reddit welcome banner reads, “Come for the cats, stay for the empathy,” but most people probably know Reddit for the Boston Bombing debacle, r/theDonald trolls, and other nasty news items. It’s hard to believe the cushy corporate messaging when Reddit has so consistently allowed horrible shit on their site until the media fervor gets so intense that they can’t ignore it anymore

    • brax@sh.itjust.works
      27·
      10 months ago

      It used to be the heart of the internet, but they’re about 13 years too late for that now.

      They should consider rebranding to “another one of the Internet’s many assholes”

        • Schaedelbach@feddit.de
          5·
          10 months ago

          As much as I like to shit on Reddit, Twitter is, in my opinion, still way worse. Way, way worse! I follow exclusively left leaning accounts and a couple of game developers on Twitter, yet my ‘for you’ tab has increasingly more right wing bullshit thrown my way. And I actively block stupid Nazi shit. Still, the Twitter algorithm thinks I might be interested in some local assholes who say openly racist and bigoted stuff.

    • athos77@kbin.social
      7·
      10 months ago

      most people probably know Reddit for the Boston Bombing debacle, r/theDonald trolls, and other nasty news items.

      I was just starting to promote reddit to my friends when violentacrez happened …

    • centof@lemm.eeEnglish
      61·
      10 months ago

      Don’t you know that Marketing is just fancy lying? They have to be as unethical as all the other big companies to succeed. You can’t expect a company to succeed by being ethical. When has that ever worked?

    • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 months ago

      “Heart of the internet”

      Looking at the controversies Reddit had over the years, especially the latest one regarding third party applications (which is what made so many of us migrate to Lemmy in the first place), I’m getting the vibe that this slogan is nothing more but sarcasm.