reddit loves pics, we have no pics
This is perfect then. I was getting tired of Reddit's pic-centric attitude. I slowly started to use it more and more for news and general discussion. I'm glad I found this place. It just needs to be a bit more lively here. Looks like a very small community...
Likewise. I'm new thanks to that reddit post but if hubski proves to be a better community for me than reddit, I'll gladly switch and contribute as much as I can.
We have a lot of lurkers and a small group of regular, very active commenters. I don't know why we have so many lurkers, maybe they just join and then sit back. I'm interested to see what will become of this. Before this I think I generally 'knew' everyone who commented regularly on the topics I followed. I am going to have to learn new people and names. I feel a bit trepidatious.
A large part of Reddit's following comes from the viewership of images (obvious popularity of image-based subreddits). Hubski is far more geared towards text and writing as opposed to visual stimuli - that isn't to ignore all of the awesome articles and photos that are posted. I guess it's apparent that Hubski values a textual community over, essentially, an image-based gallery, maybe? That last statement was definitely an oversimplification.
I don't mind pics as long as there's something to them. The thing I like about Hubski is that if someone posts a picture they usually follow it up with something that leads to a real conversation.
reddit is useful in the way that it has so many varieties of subreddits with decent numbers of members. reddit has thousands of different communities, and it is the central hub for many of those communities. Everyone has their own likes and dislikes, and reddit can offer you a place to discuss them. You don't have to subscribe to those default subreddits if you don't want to. That's the beauty of reddit. None but a few subreddits that I am subscribed to have pictures. And most of those pictures are educational. The subreddits I'm subscribed to are generally above average people, and they know how to make a great community. Some examples: /r/programming, /r/startrek, /r/books, and /r/netsec. Those are all great communities. People generally look at the defaults and think that all of reddit is like that. However, that is simply not the case. I like Hubski; it's a great site. However, the only thing I see that Hubski could offer is an alternative to popular subreddits. That's not necessarily a bad thing, though. I joined Hubski for an alternative to subreddits like /r/AskReddit. (I'm so tired of all those pun threads.)
We have #askhubski if you like thought-provoking questions. It's pretty good and it doesn't suffer from the r/AskReddit problems of a) "I want to tell a story so I'm going to ask a question so I can tell you the story in the textblock!" or b) "I'm going to ask an extreme question most of you can't respond to, and the ones who do may just be making shit up." So far we are avoiding circlejerkish qualities. I would like to not see a pun thread here, ever. Those have been beaten to death with me - those, and novelty accounts. Please, please no novelty accounts.