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Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

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Post by falcon620 »

vishnu_ks wrote: post #144
falcon620 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit is getting so much usage because it hasn't been monetized yet. At the moment it's quite good free user forum/board/discussion/community-style site. The new design will drive the users who liked that away. They will either eventually scatter away to hundreds of different places, or one or two new companies will take Reddit's current place.

I don't think Steve is stupid enough to make the new design compulsory. He has mentioned hundreds of times how the redesign killed Digg. Old users would keep using Reddit by visiting old.reddit.com (or by opting out of redesign). They are not going anywhere.

I haven't seen an official statement for this yet. If he's planning to do that, great! Until then.. I'm thinking we're probably all migrating to a facebook-like experience soon.

Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

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Post by agentdrtran »

chipperyman573 wrote: post #6
tammer wrote: post #5

I've recently been thinking that Reddit holds a lot of potential that has yet to be tapped or expired. The recent pivots post CEO change (mobile app, redesign, crackdown on garbage) speak to a future where currently fractured private communities such as those on Discourse or Slack can find a more publicly accessible presence. Facebook Groups, while immensely popular, currently falls into the same opt-in, zero-discove…

>The timing couldn't be better with the hollowing-out of Tumblr. What happened? I haven't heard about this.

recent redesign massively increased ads and "recommended posts" as well as many users/communities being banned for being NSFW.

Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

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Post by rootusrootus »

gitgacutils wrote: post #93
Analemma_ wrote: post #32

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> Reddit is 80% government, politics and news propaganda and 20% ads ( movies, music, etc ). I am a heavy Reddit user and I don't notice any of these things, except when I specifically go looking for them. Curate your subreddit list and unsubscribe from all the default subs - they are all garbage, and that isn't even Reddit's fault, it's just inevitable once they reach a certain size.

> I am a heavy Reddit user and I don't notice any of these things You don't see politics related content on reddit daily? I used reddit since reddit was days old ( years before the digg migration ) so maybe we visited different websites. > Curate your subreddit list and unsubscribe from all the default subs That defeats the point of reddit doesn't it? Or what made reddit great. I never used reddit to be part of a bub…

How do you avoid being in a bubble? Usually of your own creation. Whether it is curating the subreddits you see, or selecting the news sites you visit, you are only ever going to see a tiny fraction of what's going on in the world.

I skip pretty much all the political and news subreddits and stick to the focused communities that match my interest. Things like r/3dprinting, or r/omscs, etc. I find most communities are decent as long as they're not enormous. Any significant political content and I bail, I am just too tired of being reminded how horrible many people are.

Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

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Post by silentsea90 »

xarball wrote: post #103
tyrust wrote: post #47

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As a native-born American with all of my family in the US, I use Reddit for the same category of things too :)

As a dead animal carcass whos insides are torn out and spewed out along the side of the road, I wish I could use reddit for similar, yet somewhat more distant categories too ^.^

This made me lol at work. Don't know why this is getting downvoted

Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

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Post by cornholio »

emn13 wrote: post #51
iamunr wrote: post #9

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Same could be same for Reddit, and their app ecosystem.

I can't say I'm enthused by reddit-on-mobile. I stick to the desktop version. No idea if I'm alone in that...

Boost is great on Android.

Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

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Post by heckanoobs »

hoffbrau99 wrote: post #86
to_bpr wrote: post #58

As a long, long time user of Reddit, it has been quite saddening to see its descent into the shallow, ultra-toxic husk of a corporate entity that it is today. I'm not surprised by its popularity; it's a headline-surfers paradise, one in which you get feel good points for displays of virtue or shitposting easily digested content in an era of unparalleled narcissism and shortened attention spans. All is not lost though…

I'd like a reddit-like site that is more exclusive, it filters out the non-serious users with a yearly subscription fee of say $100.

I've made reddit more enjoyable in the past by using plugins that auto collapse comments past depth 1 or 2. On avg, conversation devolves past that point.

I've since quit Reddit but comments here have convinced me to take a second look. I think this time around I will put even more filters in place, like no subreddits with over 10k subs, and some way to hide everyone's karma count including my own.

I guess what I'm trying to say is maybe you and I don't need a pay wall to filter, we just need an opinionated browser plugin (or easy way to share settings in RES)

Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

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Post by devy »

cm2012 wrote: post #59

Keep in mind: 1) Most Facebook users use the app, not the website, which Alexa doesn't track (Which is also why Facebook doesn't fear commonly used ad blockers). 2) Alexa uses a number of metrics to rank sites, including pages visited. Reddit users load many more individual pages than FB users. In reality, Reddit is nowhere near close to the traffic and engagement leviathan that is Facebook.

I agree. The amount of the network, data center engineering resources between facebook and reddit aren't even on the same magnitude.

Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

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Post by empath75 »

hoffbrau99 wrote: post #86
to_bpr wrote: post #58

As a long, long time user of Reddit, it has been quite saddening to see its descent into the shallow, ultra-toxic husk of a corporate entity that it is today. I'm not surprised by its popularity; it's a headline-surfers paradise, one in which you get feel good points for displays of virtue or shitposting easily digested content in an era of unparalleled narcissism and shortened attention spans. All is not lost though…

I'd like a reddit-like site that is more exclusive, it filters out the non-serious users with a yearly subscription fee of say $100.

https://tildes.net/

Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

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Post by fein »

TremendousJudge wrote: post #146
fein wrote: post #123

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And for the majority of the large subs for a specific interest, they are astroturfed to hell and back. Much of the content you see on /r/all is likely corporate shilling with sock puppets controlling the promotion of the item and the comments within. There should be Moore's/ Poe's law for the correlation of the size and influence of a site to the amount of corporate influence on said site. As the natural user base gr…

>There should be Moore's/ Poe's law for the correlation of the size and influence of a site to the amount of corporate influence on said site. For parody subreddits, I think there's a rule that at 80k subs, it starts to become the very thing it was parodying in the first place

Right that's basically Poe's law. Paraphrasing here but: "When a subject becomes sufficiently extreme, it becomes nearly impossible to differentiate serious discussion from satire".

I was thinking a combination of Poe's approach to subject matter with Moore's approach to the increase of transistors (users/ traffic in this analogue) over a period of time.

Re: Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

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Post by dageshi »

to_bpr wrote: post #58

As a long, long time user of Reddit, it has been quite saddening to see its descent into the shallow, ultra-toxic husk of a corporate entity that it is today. I'm not surprised by its popularity; it's a headline-surfers paradise, one in which you get feel good points for displays of virtue or shitposting easily digested content in an era of unparalleled narcissism and shortened attention spans. All is not lost though…

I am also a long time reddit user, 10 or so years at this point. It's not obvious to me that reddit is particularly different than it was in the past. There's just more of it now.
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