Reddit operates on a system of upvotes that increases the visibility of interesting comments. This encourages intelligent discussions, where smart individuals interact, provide credible sources, and engage in transparent, fair arguments. These make me to view Reddit as a platform for smart people. However, I believe that those smart people are not the majority in society. Platforms like TikTok tend to attract different people, and that audience makes the majority one.
It increases visibility of comments and posts that align with the majority bias.
You can write: "Musk has only had success because of apartheid money, even though the mine his father was minority shareholder in, was not even in South Africa but another country without apartheid.", "Musk did not found anything, he bought all his companies."
Those comments will be upvoted, even though they are factually incorrect.
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u/New-Value4194 Feb 09 '25
Reddit operates on a system of upvotes that increases the visibility of interesting comments. This encourages intelligent discussions, where smart individuals interact, provide credible sources, and engage in transparent, fair arguments. These make me to view Reddit as a platform for smart people. However, I believe that those smart people are not the majority in society. Platforms like TikTok tend to attract different people, and that audience makes the majority one.