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The difference between Reddit and other large sources for media is the popular places on Reddit were where you’d encounter US bias, whereas other places were easier to tailor to your locality (I’m in the UK). Maybe it’s because you’re effectively interacting with a lot of random people whereas Twitter or Facebook you were more likely to be interacting with people you know or who were from the same region.
I like to think, in a similar way to Mastodon, a fair proportion of users here want it to be something totally different and not a new version of Reddit. It doesn’t have to be big, or popular, or make headlines, as long as it is a good community with lots of discussion and information that’ll do for me.
Personally I would like to leave all the “drama” bollocks behind, that whole atmosphere around the large general-interest subs which dominated and sadly defined The Reddit Experience for casual users and people outside. That’s my main desire when not wanting this to be Reddit 2.0, that and a move away from the heavily US-centric bias, in views, content and assumption it’s the default lived experience of the users.