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This. Also, even when Reddit was at its worst at the height of Tr*mpism and before that just ultra-racism, the whole site was not all those people. I think one of the weird things about Reddit has always been how *weirdly insulated* the different subreddits are from each other. EmilyDreyfuss/1355206201953316872Permalink On twitter.com
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Reddit has had and still has Big Tech Problems (including real bad racism & sexism), but you could never paint its entire userbase with a single brush anymore than you could with Facebook or Twitter. I wish our coverage of web communities could get a little more complicated.Permalink On twitter.com
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Especially because when we dig into the terrible groups there are good and useful reasons to distinguish how one group is distinctly terrible in a different way from another terrible group, as much as they both are distinctly different from not-terrible subreddits.Permalink On twitter.com
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And covering Reddit--the company that allows terrible discourse to continue on its platform and therefore has some responsibility for its persistence--is *very different* from covering individual pools of users mostly insulated from the mothership of management and tech.Permalink On twitter.com
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I say this with the knowledge that it is a rare occurrence but... I wish we had a way to examine and talk about communities and their platforms when they improve without it coming off as excusing the other parts of the platform that don't improve or get worse...On twitter.com
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I've just been thinking about this a lot because I've been seeing some of these communities change lately. Gaming communities are still more terrible than not... but I've been seeing some self moderate, call out racism and sexism, and enforce consequences...Permalink On twitter.com
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Like... stuff is still bad in those circles, but it is immensely satisfying seeing stuff like antisemitism and racism called out *inside a game chat AND community forum* b/c when I was a kid that was like... the *currency* of MMO chats. I can't imagine how to report on that tho.Permalink On twitter.com
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Just... there's nothing to be self congratulatory about but... holy shit progress is occurring in spaces I never thought progress would occur and it puts stuff like FB's total incapability to improve in *real* perspective.Permalink On twitter.com
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Having grown up in MMOs, the simple act of seeing someone go 'hey, don't do that' when another person types something racist is *HUGE*. Seeing subreddits around games moderate that when they used to promote it is *HUGE* even if it is a mere fraction of what needs to be done.Permalink On twitter.com
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It is a story I think we really are ill-equipped to tell because media and journalists are generally ill-equipped to tell stories that celebrate steady slow small changes that arise over a long period of work. Those are very hard stories to get people hooked into.Permalink On twitter.com
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Anyway... went a bit on a tangent there.Permalink On twitter.com
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