I think Reddit and other social media share the same problem in that people don't naturally share the same piece of information with EVERYONE they know.
Your girlfriend/boyfriend might be interested in your marriage plans, but your friends might be more interested in talking about games. The former might be horrified at you playing shooting games, and the latter might be horrified that you want kids. In real life the two things would be segregated, but social media is often merged and it's impossible to separate the two.
Social media has got very mass market in recent years and the civil intelligent discussions that you would have when only [traditional] geeky types were around, even between people of differing political views, have gone down the drain. But the main problem with Reddit was that it was too over-zealous with moderation after the Trump election, and it's basically been a downward hill since then since the echo chamber bandwagon just gets more and more self-fulfilling. It's silly to the point many international subreddits are utterly non-sensical and sometimes racist to the country the subreddit covers!
Your girlfriend/boyfriend might be interested in your marriage plans, but your friends might be more interested in talking about games. The former might be horrified at you playing shooting games, and the latter might be horrified that you want kids. In real life the two things would be segregated, but social media is often merged and it's impossible to separate the two.
Social media has got very mass market in recent years and the civil intelligent discussions that you would have when only [traditional] geeky types were around, even between people of differing political views, have gone down the drain. But the main problem with Reddit was that it was too over-zealous with moderation after the Trump election, and it's basically been a downward hill since then since the echo chamber bandwagon just gets more and more self-fulfilling. It's silly to the point many international subreddits are utterly non-sensical and sometimes racist to the country the subreddit covers!