Madeira Consorcio

162 Madeira Consorcio meeting 12.9.2026

Sep 13, 2026 at 6:39 pm | Posted in Posts | Leave a comment
Tags: AI, communities, reddit, rules, social media

We met in the Gallery and saw this video:

Steve Huffman is a manager of Reddit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit and from K.:

Can anyone explain what is Reddit and how it works ?
byu/Wiz_Johnny inNewToReddit

This is not a typical social media website, it is a place for building communities for all kinds of topics.I t was founded in 2005, and had its ups and downs. “Likes” and “followers” are not the issue. People who contribute useful posts may get “good Karma” The site is moderated, Hate posts and bad stuff is eliminated.

The site is indented for people who feel alone, they can connect to like-minded people with the same hobbies or concerns. Each Reddit community sets its own policies. It is supposed to promote a human internet.

The speaker said that Social Media sets a stage where a person needs to “perform” well to receive Likes, resulting in competition between humans for attention. Ai on top, turns these Social Media places into factories for “Slop”.

Reddit is functioning like a neighbourhood in a city. Nobody gets to be famous on Reddit. Reddit has the values each community sets up as guidelines. “Be civil” is often one of them. Reddit is anonymous. It does not allow hate speech and other awful stuff.. Communities are diverse, like “Mom for a Minute” where people who need a positive moment can meet with “Moms” who give them positive encouragement. There is also a community for bald people, and a wide variety of others. Reddit stands for tough love.

Ome examples of communities ( list form Wikipedia):

r/AmItheAsshole – Reddit forum for judgement of behavior r/anime – Anime community on Reddit r/antiwork – Subreddit associated with the anti-work movement r/Art – Art internet forum r/AskHistorians – History forum on Reddit r/AskReddit – Subreddit providing a forum for users to ask questions r/bald – Subreddit about baldness and hair loss r/BreadStapledToTrees – Humorous subreddit where users staple bread to trees r/changemyview – Subreddit dedicated to presenting opposing viewpoints

r/dataisbeautiful – Subreddit focused on data visualization r/The_Donald – Banned Donald Trump-supporting subreddit r/Feminism – Feminist subreddit r/HaveWeMet – Reddit roleplay community r/IAmA – Reddit forum for question-and-answer interactive interviews r/malefashionadvice – Subreddit for men seeking fashion advice r/place – Online social experiment on Reddit r/science – Science subreddit r/wallstreetbets – Subreddit for stock and option trading

Our feeling was that it can be a “blabla” website, but human interaction always starts with banalities (The weather, how are you?).

Reddit has limited advertising and is financed by donations (like Wikipedia) It also still has income from a deal with Google etc, to allow them to use the Reddit content for the teaching of AI: This is set to run out in 2027.

Influencers are not here because they cannot generate followers.

We also spoke about AI and its dangers. Circular accounting between the AI giants is helping to blow up the financial bubble. It might burst soon, and the repercussions will be hitting Europe as well. Social Media are superfluous, and humankind is waking up to it now.