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Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by edaemon »

Perceval wrote: post #100
edaemon wrote: post #23

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It's interesting that it peaked at 1.5m comments/mo in late 2016 and it's shrunk to 820k comments/mo. That's a huge drop. It sort of makes sense, seeing as the election ended, but that activity decrease is far larger than any other subreddit, even political ones.

r/the_Donald was "quarantined" by the admins, so it cannot be discovered by users in the same way as other subreddits. That cut off a lot of the organic growth that you would normally see, and it cut off users who might normally see r/the_Donald on the r/all or r/popular wander in to comment/argue. People who are not already subscribers just no longer even see anything at all from r/the_Donald.

Where did you see that it was quarantined? As far as I know their sticky posts can't appear in /r/all anymore and it was excluded from /r/popular.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by minkzilla »

SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #126
ThomPete wrote: post #34

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Agree The obvious way out of that is to join bubbles that are aligned with your interests rather than political views. If your interest is politics then find a better interest :)

Every now and then when I access Reddit not logged in from somewhere I get reminded of this. If you curate what you are subscribed to it will be much better. About a year ago I wrote a little Python script in about an hour or so that subscribed me to every single state-level or above location-based subreddit (there is a webpage that you can go to that lists them all, I simply scraped that). I have learned so much abo…

can you share the script ? I'd be very interested in trying it out.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS »

minkzilla wrote: post #142
SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #126

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Every now and then when I access Reddit not logged in from somewhere I get reminded of this. If you curate what you are subscribed to it will be much better. About a year ago I wrote a little Python script in about an hour or so that subscribed me to every single state-level or above location-based subreddit (there is a webpage that you can go to that lists them all, I simply scraped that). I have learned so much abo…

can you share the script ? I'd be very interested in trying it out.

Sadly it was wiped when I reformatted awhile back. But it’s rather trivial to implement if you know a little python. The website I scraped is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocationReddits/wiki/index

It took a bit of finagling to exclude the US college and city subreddits but otherwise I subscribed as-is to everything on that page. I think I only have unsubbed to a couple of them manually after, mostly because of excessive political posts by people who clearly don’t live in the area (Israel and Palestine subreddits come to mind)

You get some great content from doing it. Specifically Denmark and Sweden have amazing content in Danish and Swedish respectively that you wouldn’t ever see otherwise. Plus the former Yugoslavia countries and Eastern Europe and basically a lot of Europe generically has some sweet content you would not normally see if you weren’t subbed to their subreddits. Right click to google translate helps a lot. There are some truly dank European memes out there.

One of the other things I noticed that was really cool is that I now am tuned in to state politics outside of my home state in US. You really start to see the major issues other states have when you are subbed to their home subreddit.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by StudentStuff »

ThomPete wrote: post #135
doublepg23 wrote: post #134

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Some people don't have the ability to not be concerned with politics.

If you mean like a bad habbit i agree.

Pretty sure doublepg23 was referring to those of us who aren't straight, cis-gendered males. Politics directly affects us, sure the rich among us can run to lavender marriages and try to cover up their innate desires, but the rest of us will end up being fed to the wolves.

For us, going to a rural town or even many suburbs elicits the observation "It smells like dead gay people" as you've entered an area where you may get lynched for being yourself. Even here in Seattle, non-straight couples are getting violently assaulted for being out in public with their significant other. The state of affairs is rapidly getting worse for us!

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by ThomPete »

StudentStuff wrote: post #144
ThomPete wrote: post #135

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If you mean like a bad habbit i agree.

Pretty sure doublepg23 was referring to those of us who aren't straight, cis-gendered males. Politics directly affects us, sure the rich among us can run to lavender marriages and try to cover up their innate desires, but the rest of us will end up being fed to the wolves. For us, going to a rural town or even many suburbs elicits the observation "It smells like dead gay people" as you've entered an area where you ma…

Not sure what violence in Seattle have to do with whether you need to get politically involved.

There are lots of reasons why people get assaulted most of them have nothing to do with sexual orientation.

Yes, you can decide to do something about it politically but you can also choose to just not come to those places again just like a family who can afford it would move away from the ghettos. That doesn't mean you have to be politically involved, it's a choice.

Don't get me wrong I don't mind people getting politically involved but in my experience confusing virtue signaling on FB, Twitter and Reddit with actual political involvement leads to more disappointment than progress.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by kdamken »

HiroshiSan wrote: post #109
propogandist wrote: post #36

Reddit was great, many years ago, although there are many sub-reddits that are still excellent today. Moves they've made in the recent years, like hiding vote counts, were to improve growth, but it has also enabled more astroturfing and censorship (widespread). More recently, they started injected tracking into outbound link clicks and introduced the terrible redesign to help with growth/monetization also. As they've…

Not to mention their dark patterns to get you to install the mobile app while browsing on mobile.

If you hit the hamburger icon you can turn off the constant asking you to open the app pop ups.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by kdamken »

propogandist wrote: post #42
ProAm wrote: post #17

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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.

reddit is only usable if you have a plugin like this https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec... which will auto-redirect you to the old-design

You can also just change that in your account settings to use the old design.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by mbesto »

wild_preference wrote: post #90
mbesto wrote: post #41

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Not for their investors who put in $200m and want a return. I use Reddit daily, but it's days are numbered. Having Facebook acquire them I think is it's only saving grace. I use the word "it" deliberately, because Reddit is now in the hands of its VCs.

> and want a return Then it would be bad for them, too.

WhatsApp was an incredible success for its investors. Not so much for its acquirer. Look hard enough and you'll find M&A doesn't always pan out as expected, even at the $1B value range.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by StudentStuff »

ThomPete wrote: post #145
StudentStuff wrote: post #144

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Pretty sure doublepg23 was referring to those of us who aren't straight, cis-gendered males. Politics directly affects us, sure the rich among us can run to lavender marriages and try to cover up their innate desires, but the rest of us will end up being fed to the wolves. For us, going to a rural town or even many suburbs elicits the observation "It smells like dead gay people" as you've entered an area where you ma…

Not sure what violence in Seattle have to do with whether you need to get politically involved. There are lots of reasons why people get assaulted most of them have nothing to do with sexual orientation. Yes, you can decide to do something about it politically but you can also choose to just not come to those places again just like a family who can afford it would move away from the ghettos. That doesn't mean you hav…

> Not sure what violence in Seattle have to do with whether you need to get politically involved.

Violence against minorities has significantly increased as the extreme right has gained power across the USA.

> There are lots of reasons why people get assaulted most of them have nothing to do with sexual orientation.

We're talking about growing threats here, the rate of assaults and murders against LGBTQ+ and numerous other minorities has significantly increased in the past 3 years, people feel emboldened to hate.

> Yes, you can decide to do something about it politically but you can also choose to just not come to those places again just like a family who can afford it would move away from the ghettos. That doesn't mean you have to be politically involved, it's a choice.

Wow, holy shit that is a privileged view you have. Most people can't afford to uproot their lives and flee the neighborhoods they live in.

These assaults and murders are happening in "safe" neighborhoods, by people who are rolling in with their prejudiced beliefs and taking it out on the first non-straight person they see. I don't see how the fuck we're supposed to move away from them when we are already in the safest places in the USA to be LGBTQ+.

> Don't get me wrong I don't mind people getting politically involved but in my experience confusing virtue signaling on FB, Twitter and Reddit with actual political involvement leads to more disappointment than progress.

Perhaps you have gained an idea of why those of us who are actively hated by certain groups in the USA can't just "ignore politics". It isn't a bad habit for us, the outcome of many recent political decisions has directly affected us, and things may get worse. If we fail to pay at least some mind to politics, it may end up where all but the rich are shoved back in the closet, or fed to the wolves.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by spookthesunset »

naravara wrote: post #84
dunmalg wrote: post #55

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Not signing in to reddit is the surest way to experience the online equivalent of a table next to the bathroom.

Signing in puts you at risk of getting sucked into pointless internet comment arguments though.

> Signing in puts you at risk of getting sucked into pointless internet comment arguments though.

....says a person signed into HN engaged in pointless internet comment arguments....

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