“Over the last two years, as the subreddit has tripled in size, moderators have noticed its content changing, too. With a bigger audience comes a greater opportunity to spread the word. But where the subreddit used to be mainly used as a forum for discussion of data and hard news, the most popular threads today are memes, alarmist headlines and polemics. Those are more appealing for a large audience–who accordingly “upvote” the posts to the top of the subreddit.” This is the precise problem that Relevant solves. Because the reputation metric is not based on popularity the content doesn’t change as the community grows in size. Web2.0 networks assume one account one vote is a must. This is an outdated view in many ways.

A dive into the practice of "Doomscrolling" seen through the lens of reddit forum /r/collapse. The article looks at the effects on people behaviours and mental health and features interviews with users of the forum. "When you’re constantly presented with evidence of systemic threats, it can foster a negativity bias that can leave you feeling anxious or depressed—and reduce your sense of individual agency. “There’s something inherently disenfranchising about someone’s ability to act on something if they’re exposed to it via social media, because it’s inherently global,” says Kennedy-Williams. “There are not necessarily ways that they can interact with the issue.” This sense of paralysis is at the core of doomscrolling. And it raises an important question: what’s the use of raising awareness, if the medium you’re using to do so inspires lethargy instead of action?"