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

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Post by Trill-I-Am »

MeinBlutIstBlau wrote: post #381
Barrin92 wrote: post #300

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it's the downside of reddit still being a relatively federated, open platform. You have to dig yourself to find good content and niche subreddits, but I vastly prefer it to the centralised, 'overlord AI', algorithmic stuff on every other service. You can't have it both, if you have decentralisation and pretty free expression you get a lot of garbage and responsibility is on you to find what's worth looking at. I also…

I'd agree with this if Reddit didn't ban literally every single subreddit their vocal minority didn't like. Reddit used to be a fun hybrid of Fark and Slashdot. It was far better than both of those and had a niche audience just a little larger than the HN community. It was great. Now it just feels like a perpetual tumblr ready to silence the reason why their users are even on their platform.

What subreddits have they banned that weren't vile?

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Post by forgotmypw17 »

ihuman wrote: post #290
edoceo wrote: post #273

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I just signed in, I'm in the new UI, there is nothing in my settings to turn it off.

In new reddit, there's an "Opt out of the redesign" option at the bottom of the "Account" section in new reddit. Turn that on. There's also "Use new Reddit as my default experience" if your looking at the setting in old reddit, and you want to turn that off.

I've set all of these, and none of them are sticky enough to work all the time.

Reddit user for 10+ years here, coder and designer for 20+. I know the site pretty well. If I can't figure it out, it's pretty fucked.

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Post by austincheney »

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.

My karma on Reddit was about 5500 before I deleted my account and walked away. The thing I remember most about it is echo chambers. The insecurity was very real, kind of like programming in the corporate world, but heavily magnified.

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Post by throwaway45349 »

the_jeremy wrote: post #410
MeinBlutIstBlau wrote: post #375

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Same here. Reddit wouldn't be so bad if they literally didn't shut down every subreddit just because the psychotically loud minority said so. Plus it boggles my mind why they would do that. You are actively telling your users to go elsewhere. That's literally money and engagement walking out the door. And a lot of it. Now it's just memes, "The republicans are evil again...!", and "My mother who sold me to an african…

Can you point out some subreddits they've shut down that are "money and engagement walking out the door"? The only subreddits I've heard of being shut down are as objectively racist and derogatory as you can get (or NSFL gore). Advertisers and mainstream users generally don't want to be associated with sites promoting those types of content.

Anything conservative.

The Donald was a hotbed of whackjobs, but it was also the biggest Trump forum online. They should be allowed to talk freely so the rest of us can laugh, rather than persuing the censorship route so advertisers don't leave.

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Post by AI_WAIFU »

the_jeremy wrote: post #410
MeinBlutIstBlau wrote: post #375

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Same here. Reddit wouldn't be so bad if they literally didn't shut down every subreddit just because the psychotically loud minority said so. Plus it boggles my mind why they would do that. You are actively telling your users to go elsewhere. That's literally money and engagement walking out the door. And a lot of it. Now it's just memes, "The republicans are evil again...!", and "My mother who sold me to an african…

Can you point out some subreddits they've shut down that are "money and engagement walking out the door"? The only subreddits I've heard of being shut down are as objectively racist and derogatory as you can get (or NSFL gore). Advertisers and mainstream users generally don't want to be associated with sites promoting those types of content.

They shut down r/bigchungus.

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Post by airstrike »

vxNsr wrote: post #216
cgearhart wrote: post #17

It’s been one less since their app started spamming my phone with notifications a few months ago. I suspect those kinds of engagement hooks are part of the reason they have been pushing the app so hard, but I got so tired of it that I uninstalled it from my phone. Fortunately they’ve also made the mobile/web experience so horrible that I’m not even tempted to wade back in. I had been a daily user for more than 10 yea…

I don’t understand this mentality, I have 3 apps that can send notifications: phone, messages and WhatsApp. Everything else is blocked. I don’t want to see notifications for 99% of apps every once in a while I’ll be tempted into letting an app use notifications and immediately regret it and disable.

I don't even let Whatsapp send notifications, and I only allow messages because I hardly ever get them... Even then, I silence message alerts most people other than my wife

For me it's essentially my work e-mail (not personal), the WSJ, my credit card, my calendar and Accuweather. Everything else can forever hold its peace

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Post by urda »

Kaze404 wrote: post #242
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.

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.

It's really not. The main political subreddit /r/politics has just become an echo chamber even though they claim to be unbiased. The way reddit is designed and built only results in these echo chambers. Politics on reddit, especially over the past 4 years, ends up seeping into even non-political subreddits.

reddit makes money off rage.

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Post by Guest19023892 »

zerkten wrote: post #245
waheoo wrote: post #239

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If they ever remove old Reddit they're done. So many communities use it exclusively and will just walk if forced into the new shite.

Are there any communities where the new site is preferred? I wonder if offering different experiences for what is the same site is actually working out better in practice than we'd expect. That contradicts what we seem to know about site design and would be considered uneconomical, but might it help Reddit keep a broader set of communities? I'm not sure how we'd know this externally, but perhaps someone here has some…

Someone mentioned in a previous post that it works well for /r/watches and I agree with them. It seems to be beneficial for image based subreddits where you're interested in seeing the majority of the images and only occasionally dive into the comments.

Great for mindlessly scrolling images, but less so for content that you pick and choose what to view, text based content, and commenting. I think it'll come back to hurt them in the long run.

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Post by seventytwo »

notyourwork wrote: post #331
doc_gunthrop wrote: post #54

reddit may have been a good site a decade or so ago, but in its current state it's mostly a propaganda machine to manipulate clueless rubes. One look at the front page makes this glaringly obvious. The only remotely productive way to use reddit is by being selective with what subs you check out. Avoid the larger subreddits at all cost.

> One look at the front page makes this glaringly obvious. What does this mean?

It likely means he’s upset Reddit isn’t a clone of OANN.

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Post by 0xy »

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #371
lock-free wrote: post #267

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Reddit is also reliant on third party apps to get content and interaction since their own frontend and backend are terrible for everything but link and comment aggregation.

Holy fuck the new reddit is shitty.... If i just want to see the link, I click the link. If i scroll down on a post, i want to read the comments.... plural, as in many... not just one or two, and then a new, unrelated post, and having to click a button to show the rest of the comments... the only "thing" you have (commenting/discussions), you're destroying now.

How are engineers proud to work at reddit when their primary job is maintaining a worse version of the website full of ads, tracking, dark patterns everywhere and fake loading screens?

It's also slow, very slow.

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