Why doesn't Reddit have the same bad rep Tumblr has?

[KuroMadoshi]

Nothing to add just here for the laughs

 

[Rangaman]

It does, but it isn't as commonly bitched-about as Tumblr because...well, everyone else has come and gone and said what I was going to say: subreddits make all the difference.

Also memes. LOTS of memes.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Because Reddit has the monolithic "millions of individuals in a millions and ten communities" thing behind it.

Tumblr is a blog site, therefore much more personal and simpler to put a face to.

Basically you're comparing a bunch of, and this is important, anonymous text posts scattered around to someone talking about their personal lives on their blog.

Not to mention you're talking about different internet cultures, Facebook and Tumblr largely miss out on that 25-55 range outside of business and cross-promotion, whereas Reddit largely has the internet generation, architect generation, and first-adopters in it.

So you've got a bunch of people that have no problems with what people say because it's anonymous and often some manner of venting for the perceived wrongs done to them compared to someone that often calls people out by name and face(or username and content as the case may be) for the wrongs perceived done to them.

Also alot of people just use Reddit for its intended use as an aggregate of content and don't bother with comments, again, something Tumblr and Facebook aren't. They're all about comments in comparison.

entirely this.

I've stuck to 5-6 key sub-reddits for the past 3-4 years, and it's been nothing but great, sure there is the occasional disparity between "git gud" try hard people and the casual crowd just wanting to have fun, but otherwise it's nice/intelligent conversations.


unless you actively go looking for different subreddits that are designed to be shithole echo chambers, you probably won't come across most shitposting. Especially due to moderators in alot of sub's.

 

[Delicious Anathema]

Reddit has a bit of everything. 4chan/8chan is more like what you posted.

 

[Guffe]

I basically know that these sites, tumblr/reddit/4chan, exist but I have very seldom visited them. The only times are when someone in here have links to some of those sites because their thread is about a thing that comes from that site.
The few times I've been there, I just find them confusing, the layouts and everything else. Besides I've pretty much stayed away from there due to all the flame wars and really extreme views I've heard people have on those sites. Those may only be a small part, but I'm not going to start going there now.