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The Growth of Reddit

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Re: The Growth of Reddit

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post #8

It is interesting that the #1 story in HN is decline in FB and the #3 is growth in Reddit. Personal anecdote, I have shifted all my FB screen time to Reddit. Not out of any agenda, but perhaps to interact with a more diverse group of people. Bold prediction: FB will try to acquire Reddit soon

I wonder if they have tried already

Re: The Growth of Reddit

#12
post #8

It is interesting that the #1 story in HN is decline in FB and the #3 is growth in Reddit. Personal anecdote, I have shifted all my FB screen time to Reddit. Not out of any agenda, but perhaps to interact with a more diverse group of people. Bold prediction: FB will try to acquire Reddit soon

And yet you're discussing this on Hacker News...

Re: The Growth of Reddit

#13
post #4

t_d at its peak was almost as big as politics, now that was not something I expected. Before SandersForPresident was archived when he lost the nomination it was about the same size as t_d. Would be really neat to select a single sub or group of subs and generate a line chart of the same data.

/r/politics leans left, so it kinda makes sense.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

#14
post #9
post #4

t_d at its peak was almost as big as politics, now that was not something I expected. Before SandersForPresident was archived when he lost the nomination it was about the same size as t_d. Would be really neat to select a single sub or group of subs and generate a line chart of the same data.

A lot of what goes on in t_d is artificial, so the actual size of the community is probably a lot less than what it appears here.

[citation needed]

Re: The Growth of Reddit

#15
I wonder if Reddit has surpassed Twitter, Snapchat, etc, for the title of most popular non-Facebook social network. You rarely see anyone do any kind of comparison of them.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

#16

Some pretty poor categorization of some subreddits in there. gamesofthrones, mylittlepony, thewalkingdead, and BigBrother are in sports (asoiaf is in entertainment). sysadmin and techsupport are in hobbies/occupations while buildapc is in tech section. tumblrinaction, kotakuinaction, and blackpeopletwitter are in entertainment. DebateReligion is in news/politics, not discussion (with other debate subreddits) or lifes…

The base classification structure was borrowed from r/listofsubreddits sub directory: https://www.reddit.com/r/ListOfSubreddits/wiki/listofsubredd.... However it was modified a bit in order to even out the clusters, size wise. Keeping it unchanged would make more than half of the subs entertainment. That being said, some hiccups were made during the formatting, and the purpose of the repo is to fix/enhance any mistakes people spot.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

#17
post #8

It is interesting that the #1 story in HN is decline in FB and the #3 is growth in Reddit. Personal anecdote, I have shifted all my FB screen time to Reddit. Not out of any agenda, but perhaps to interact with a more diverse group of people. Bold prediction: FB will try to acquire Reddit soon

For me I've moved from Reddit back to Digg, Reddit seems to be the worst parts of Facebook combined with the worst parts of Twitter. The redesign is horrendously busy, the comments are trite or vicious, and the v.reddit videos either autoplay or never play when you click on them.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

#18
post #8

It is interesting that the #1 story in HN is decline in FB and the #3 is growth in Reddit. Personal anecdote, I have shifted all my FB screen time to Reddit. Not out of any agenda, but perhaps to interact with a more diverse group of people. Bold prediction: FB will try to acquire Reddit soon

> Bold prediction: FB will try to acquire Reddit soon

This would be bad on so many levels.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

#19
post #14
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of what goes on in t_d is artificial, so the actual size of the community is probably a lot less than what it appears here.

[citation needed]

Not proof of bots but that subreddit definitely exhibits some unusual voting patterns

http://ryancompton.net/2016/08/07/upvotes-over-time-by-subre...

Re: The Growth of Reddit

#20
post #15

I wonder if Reddit has surpassed Twitter, Snapchat, etc, for the title of most popular non-Facebook social network. You rarely see anyone do any kind of comparison of them.

Is Reddit really considered a social network and not just a discussion forum?
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