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Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

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Re: Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms

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Post by bzb6 »

ixacto wrote: post #261
Raidion wrote: post #5

That number seems to indicate why they've started to use all the dark patterns for people to create an account. You can no longer see comments other than at the top level. Some subreddits require registration to view. All these things are artifacts of the new design that do not exist on old.reddit.com. I'm thankful HN is not designing for 'engagement' or MAUs at the UI level.

They have been auto-creating an account if you go to reddit.com on an android phone logged into a google account. Not sure if this is intentional or not.

Isn’t that technically impossible?

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Post by gitweb »

chillwaves wrote: post #338
muttantt wrote: post #328

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and then there will be calls for Cloudflare, AWS, GCP, Azure, Fastly, Digital Ocean, ICANN, etc. to ban them.

That's not my problem. Seems worse to force companies to do business with groups like QAnon. Freedom of Speech vs Freedom of Association, which do you support?

I support free market with oversight. I believe shadow banning should be made illegal, but that companies should be free to decide if they want to block certain viewpoints. If a company blocks something like QAnon, then that is part of free market to create a new niche for people that are into fringe conspiracies that allows those viewpoints. Additionally, if a company wants to block liberal ideas then a market can exist for those who share similar ideas. The idea that these companies have to allow all speech is ridiculous, and I don't see people trying to enforce the same idea of free speech in other places of business like grocery stores, restaurants, etc where someone could start shouting some conspiracy about Democrats eating babies in the basements and not be asked to leave.

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Post by ObsoleteNerd »

robswc wrote: post #360
dvt wrote: post #243

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I agree that it seems like it's ripe for disruption. Time for another Digg (which was what reddit was supposed to be) -- maybe with a mobile-first user experience (reddit is trash on a phone).

Its actually incredible how bad it is on mobile. Its like, unusable... I'm amazed that the video player still only seems to work half the time.

Never works for me at all, and most animated GIFs don’t animate either.

It takes a special type of effort to make video NOT work on modern web browsers.

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Post by timClicks »

cblconfederate wrote: post #217

Reddit now feels like newsgroups after they were infested with spam. Little good content , hidden in corners under piles of spam. Instead of spam, they have politics though. It looks like a model on the verge of collapse.

Which subreddits do you visit? I've found the smaller ones to be excellent.

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Post by UncleOxidant »

SkyMarshal wrote: post #316
cblconfederate wrote: post #217

Reddit now feels like newsgroups after they were infested with spam. Little good content , hidden in corners under piles of spam. Instead of spam, they have politics though. It looks like a model on the verge of collapse.

Niche subreddits are informative and useful. You just have to unsubscribe from all the default reddits and find the niche stuff that interests you. Then your reddit front page becomes one of the most useful media pages on the internet.

r/covid19 is a great source of information, but the mods police it very heavily to keep it that way.

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Post by lowdose »

UncleOxidant wrote: post #396
SkyMarshal wrote: post #316

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Niche subreddits are informative and useful. You just have to unsubscribe from all the default reddits and find the niche stuff that interests you. Then your reddit front page becomes one of the most useful media pages on the internet.

r/covid19 is a great source of information, but the mods police it very heavily to keep it that way.

What have you read there that was such an insightful piece of information?

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Post by hamolton »

kshacker wrote: post #366
Kaze404 wrote: post #242

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Politics is fine. But in general Reddit has so little content actually worth anyone's time that it's crazy to me how people spend so much time on it. Not to mention YouTube channels that get millions of views where they just read AskReddit threads with the same jokes those people make literally every single thread.

Here's what I do: multiple accounts. Switching accounts is easy. One for politics (news, politics, geopolitics, plus other variations), One for finance (options, investing, thetagang, no WSB for those who know), One for Relationships (Relationships, TIFU, AITA) because it is fun, One for bay area (and the only one where I am somewhat willing to disclose my identity), One for health, One for entertainment (all the TV…

If you'd rather have your comments be on the same username, multireddits (old Reddit UI) or custom feeds (new Reddit UI) are an option for managing groups of subscriptions too.

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Post by secondcoming »

drstewart wrote: post #313
jug wrote: post #302

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Agreed — don’t use the default subreddits. They’re cancer. But I’ve had a great time at the Formula1 subreddit and people are crazy at MechanicalKeyboards. I’m sure you’ll love a knitting group if you enjoy that. Go by your specific interests and really just say no to the generic or huge ones like funny, pics, askreddit etc.

The problem is that subreddit is very prone to heterogeneous opinions and groupthink, even among niche subreddits, mostly around what's appealing to mid-20 year old white US males. The discussion is often very shallow, mostly aimed at "advanced beginners" because that's what appeals to the widest audience and anything else doesn't get traction, unlike in a traditional forum. This is very obvious if you're into a tech…

Which subreddit?

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Post by [deleted] »

MeinBlutIstBlau wrote: post #380
cblconfederate wrote: post #308

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> Politics is fine it really isn't. it's bottom-quality content, everyone can have an opinion about politics, it's too easy. Every subreddit > 100000 has a politics problem because people have now been conditioned to see politics everywhere. It takes effort to keep things topical. And then, even the politics subreddits themselves are completely confused, e.g. r/libertarian is a mostly socialist sub now.

I've been banned from a subreddit because I said Trump did some good things basically. Mod called me a nazi and silenced me after my appeal for 30 days.

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