I really dont understand the hate. Reddit to me is a mini Facebook, with some added anonimity
* Mods dont get paid - Facebook Groups has niche groups much bigger than niche subreddits. I subscribe to both FB and Reddit for the car models I own, the FB groups are 10x bigger with 20x posts. Those mods dont get paid either, and Facebook as a much bigger spam/fake account problem to work tirelessly to defend your group against
* No API / 3rd Party access - well, just try asking Meta for a free API to build an adless wrapper around the Facebook wall, good luck
But spez is the bad guy here and zuck is a saint. Or they're both bad guys but if you think that, then spez is on the right trajectory to easily have a $20b company in 5 years
People seem to be confusing - high potential for profits with building an adless platform that also has succesfully passed the network effect
What you're missing is that up until relatively recently, folks were still holding out hope that Reddit could remain a place that was enjoyable to interact with regularly. It's only the last 5 years that it has completely degraded into an obnoxious hellscape that you occasionally have to pinch your nose and deal with to extract some information that is unfortunately buried there. Facebook, on the other hand, degraded into a hellscape a long, long time ago. The facebook wounds have healed, whereas the reddit wounds are fresh. Plus, people liked using Reddit a lot more than they ever liked Facebook at their respective peaks. You're seeing people coping with a deeper and more recent loss.
* Mods dont get paid - Facebook Groups has niche groups much bigger than niche subreddits. I subscribe to both FB and Reddit for the car models I own, the FB groups are 10x bigger with 20x posts. Those mods dont get paid either, and Facebook as a much bigger spam/fake account problem to work tirelessly to defend your group against
* No API / 3rd Party access - well, just try asking Meta for a free API to build an adless wrapper around the Facebook wall, good luck
But spez is the bad guy here and zuck is a saint. Or they're both bad guys but if you think that, then spez is on the right trajectory to easily have a $20b company in 5 years
People seem to be confusing - high potential for profits with building an adless platform that also has succesfully passed the network effect