Notably, however, this was not the issue focused on by the article (somewhat to my surprise). The article is about real-time versus asynchronous communication, and reddit would solve for that.
No, reddit is absolute garbage for long-running threads. Their algorithm is predicated on people constantly posting new threads. This leads to people constantly posting the most common discussion topics over and over and over.
I would like to think putting everyone’s eggs in one basket to be used for unstated purposes would bother most people, but it really doesn’t.
I think they’re right though. I’m inclined to think that chat in general facilitates a staccato of quick-takes that paralyzes reader and writer from forming complete thoughts. Adding some activation energy to communicate seems to encourage more thoughtful statements. Twitter is an obvious argument by contradiction of this.
