I absolutely agree with you. Since, no one has ever really had either and documented it, it is hard to fathom the pros and cons of both. Also, a lot of it comes down to personal preference as some people may prefer creating their own lives while others need to be dependent on others to live happily.
I think the term that Reddit is dying is being thrown around too much and is far from the truth. In fact you said it yourself, there are As for Hubski becoming reddit 2.0, I don't think it'll happen anytime soon or even at all. Since Hubski revolves around a tight-knit community who mostly prefers intelligent, interesting discussions to the classic meme it'll be difficult for any normal number of reddit users to transform this site to be their own little reddit.8 Million unique users a day
. Reddit isn't dying but instead is going through a drastic change in content. Instead of being the thoughtful community-orientated website that is used to be, it has now morphed into a meme-orientated community mostly dominated by people posting overdone jokes and puns for karma, this is especially evident in the default sub-reddits where the communities are largest. So, Reddit isn't dying, its growing, but the content that used to dominate the front page has now mostly disappeared and been replaced by content, unfortunately, not that much different from what you see on facebook and 9gag. To use reddit as it used to be requires one to discover the back-end subreddits where there are intelligent discussions and an absence of circlejerky content.
I often use Facebook as I have many connections to close friends through groups, I usually 'unsubscribe' from most people and pages to avoid the often the abundance of annoying posts which allows Facebook to become a relatively more bearable service. I also often use Youtube as a 'time-killer' since viewing videos often involves more time. Finally, I use reddit for my quick fix of news and interesting content. I am only subscribed to a handful of non-default subreddits including r/android, r/doctorwho and r/askscience. Hope this helps!
The relatively small city of Adelaide, Australia. We're towards the bottom of the country along the coast and despite constant sources of excitement and stimulation in the community I still love it!
Yeah sorry about that, I didn't see it beforehand. I think change in community-orientated websites aren't all governed by the same factors since every site has different admins, users, aspects and content, so despite there being similar aspects between Reddit and Digg, I don't think its absolutely reasonable to use Digg's past to explain whats happenning to reddit at the moment. I definitely think the only Reddit users who will be joining hubski will be the ones who wish to avoid the ever-growing meme based content, which will most probably be a good thing as these people won't bring the content with the them as they are just seeking a new community which is no longer inundated with teenage boys trying to gain meaningless karma.
When I went to see the Hobbit I definitely noticed a difference with it being filmed at 48fps, it seemed a lot smoother and different but not necessarily good or bad, just different to me and after the first half hour I stopped noticing it. So to me it wasn't really a big deal whatsoever.
I absolutely loved it. So many nods to classic who. I recommend watching it if you have the chance!