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Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by mbesto » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 10:00 PM UTC

crovalin17 wrote: post #18

dmode wrote: 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.

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.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by propogandist » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 10:01 PM UTC

ProAm wrote: post #17

dmode wrote: 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.

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

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by Zarath » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 10:02 PM UTC

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…

I've used reddit quite a bit the last two years and have felt the content quality has decreased. That, or I'm just used to it or bored of it. Feel like I may be getting a little old for it. There are still some subs that are useful, like fantasyfootball

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by matt4077 » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 10:02 PM UTC

dmode wrote: 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

Facebook and Reddit serve far too different purposes in my life to make sense of a comparison. I might just have grown too old, but the talk of Reddit (or instagram etc.) replacing FB don't seem to make very much sense, as long as FB is the go-to platform for connecting with real-world acquaintances.

I literally have no connections on FB to people I haven't met in person, and don't know a single friend's reddit account.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by drenvuk » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 10:03 PM UTC

chrisco255 wrote: post #20

Hypx wrote: 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?

What would you consider digg, myspace, slashdot, 4chan, etc? Online watering holes seem like social networks, they just have different forms with similar concepts.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by ben_jones » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 10:03 PM UTC

I use reddit on my mobile browser without logging into to an account. Recently when clicking links or images in the mobile view a pop-under will appear freezing the site until I select the prominent first option (to download the Reddit mobile app) or the second option to continue using my mobile browser. Because I am unauthenticated this preference does not carry over to page reloads for things like jumping to a different subreddit, leading me to experience this pop-under over and over again.

Needless to say it's cut heavily into my reddit usage. I genuinely believe they raised a bunch of money, hired a bunch of engineers and managers, convinced the C-levels a re-design was necessary, and then implemented a subpar re-design with a giant middle finger to users all in the name of ads. Glorious, world improving, ads.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by bluegreyred » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 10:03 PM UTC

dmode wrote: 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

Reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/uSVqoW1rz6w?t=850

"We know all of your interests. Not just your interests you are willing to declare publicly on Facebook – we know your dark secrets, we know everything… (laughs)"

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by avar » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 10:04 PM UTC

Number of comments seems like a bad metric. A lot of these are informal subreddits where the most common comments are going to be "lol" or users collaborating to complete a sentence one letter at a time as part of some meme.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by css » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 10:04 PM UTC

edaemon wrote: post #31

css wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m not sure comparing a sub for a specific candidate to a sub about all politics makes a ton of sense.

(I think you meant to reply to a different comment.)

Your comment:

> that activity decrease is far larger than any other subreddit, even political ones

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by rolleiflex » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 10:04 PM UTC

rigged-system wrote: post #39

chrisco255 wrote: post #21

In many ways, Reddit reminds me more of the "old internet" than Facebook or Twitter. There seems to be better discussions, more variety, and even quite a bit of experimentation going on within certain subreddits. It feels like a freer place and that much I like. I still don't like that people get into their own bubbles and do little to bridge the gaps between political and ideological differences, but it certainly fe…

When it's gone, the "old internet" will be gone

There are still some of us that are trying to keep the old internet alive.

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