the whole point of joining a "sub" is so that the community can gather relevant information on that topic and post it there. then the community also judges that content with the voting system. the goal being that everyone creates various information pipelines relevant to themselves that they then share with the community to form an additional pipeline. it's not like i don't go to direct news sources, but typically i would hear about virtually every topic they cover 12+ hours before on reddit. i typically get more in depth information about the topic, but reddit makes me aware of it nearly instantly.
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joined 2 years ago
The idea of link aggregators is to operate like a daily newspaper, not a magazine at a doctors office. I don't want to see the same stories I read all week, I want to see the new things that are happening in the world, and in 2023, things move very fast. I'm still seeing posts about subs starting to close from the begining of the protests.
You can always trust a large cooperation to keep your data secret more than any random individuals. They have accountability for losing your data, much more so than the people on the fediverse. A big data breach leads to class action for reddit, here it just takes down an instance and lowers the validity of the technology.
The difference is that you can take reddit/Twitter/Facebook to court over violating your privacy, you won't have anywhere near that kind of luck with fredeverse hosts. If you notice, there isn't really a TOS, those are filled with regulatory agreements from governments that says what they can and can't do with your data. Here we're hanging with our ass in the breeze. Best solution right now if you want to receive DMs is to use an encrypted app and block all DMs here.
on reddit, unless it's some kind of help or megathread, you typically don't comment on old posts. in the past you couldn't comment/vote on posts over 6 months old regardless.