Why did it take so long?
Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
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Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
#72Reddit’s year-over-year growth has been outrageous. A year ago I categorized each of the top 5,000 subredddits, and many of them have gained 10x the subscribers since then. For a website that’s been around for this long it’s absolutely unreal.
Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
#73> Reddit works because it’s anonymous, information-dense and relatively ad-free. Change any one of those three and the user base will abandon you.
Usenet meets all three criteria, but it definitely is not used nearly as much as it was in the past.
Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
#74It blows my mind that Facebook is even top 5. Do people actually spend time on the site?
Dude, 50% of the american population uses Facebook every single day of their lives (according to FB's quarterly statements, which would be a serious crime to lie on).
Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
#75Most of reddit content is facebook-tier entertaiment,
I have to create a filter script to block thousands of irrelevant subreddits to increase signal-to-noise ratio.
(filter script in question: http://void.wikidot.com/code:reddit-contentfilter-user-js )
Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
#76Reddit works because it’s anonymous, information-dense and relatively ad-free. Change any one of those three and the user base will abandon you. It’s been Reddit’s dilemma since the beginning: you can’t monetize a toxic user base that has total freedom. Sure you can try to drive away the toxic users, but it turns out that those toxic users are also pretty influential in non-toxic aspects. I’m still skeptical of Reddi…
> Reddit works because it’s anonymous Are you sure there? Anonymity doesn't really exist anymore on the internet for the average person. Reddit has the illusion of anonymity which gives its users a false sense of privacy so they can act the way they truly are (parallels to Westworld if you watch the show). It would be incredibly easy for Reddit to de-anonymize its user base, the same way Facebook was trying to do wit…
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Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
#77Reddit is quickly becoming a tool for the majority on the site to suppress minority on the site's opinions. Until a viable solution is created to promote diversity of thought it will always suffer from this problem. Reddit is just as bad of an echo chamber as facebook. Please everyone who read stuff posted on reddit, engage in critical thinking after each article you read.
This happens on all sites that use voting systems. For such topics, it may be worthwhile to create a blog or related website to keep the discussion points alive.
Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
#78Reddit is quickly becoming a tool for the majority on the site to suppress minority on the site's opinions. Until a viable solution is created to promote diversity of thought it will always suffer from this problem. Reddit is just as bad of an echo chamber as facebook. Please everyone who read stuff posted on reddit, engage in critical thinking after each article you read.
Quickly? More like always. That’s precisely what upvote/downvote buttons are designed to do. It’s their job.
Don’t like downvotes? Try a different subreddit. There is always a more welcoming and engaging subreddit just around the corner.
Personally I use Reddit for amusing and funny subreddits and so the political bullshit is never my problem. And you can have the same today for the low, low cost of not giving a shit about echo chamber groupthink.
Bad actors get punished. The gamergate and incel subreddits were taken down because they incited harassment. But to use your other example of r/southafrica, blame the 90% of the country that isnt on Reddit for allowing that subreddit to descend into groupthink. Their country, their subreddit, their responsibility. Not Reddit’s.
Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US
#79Reddit works because it’s anonymous, information-dense and relatively ad-free. Change any one of those three and the user base will abandon you. It’s been Reddit’s dilemma since the beginning: you can’t monetize a toxic user base that has total freedom. Sure you can try to drive away the toxic users, but it turns out that those toxic users are also pretty influential in non-toxic aspects. I’m still skeptical of Reddi…
Not true anymore. You need an email just to sign up now.
If an email is all they require, that seems almost like an intentionally low bar.