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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 vxNsr »

flukus wrote: post #340
rantwasp wrote: post #248

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yeah. notifications are an attention drain. i virtually have no notifications on my phone. pull, not push for me.

One of the best comments I've ever read on HN said that they should be called interruptions not notifications. Interruptions are fine for certain things, but not the vast majority of them. The biggest one I've switched off is email notifications and it's made me so much more organized. Instead of swiping away an interruption when I can't respond properly I'll pull the information when I do have time/ability to respon…

Yup. This is one of the reasons that I don’t like android. Unfortunately now that apple is becoming a service provider also (Apple TV+, News+, etc) with apps that rely on engagement metrics I’m worried that I’ll start having this problem as well. The shortcuts app already doesn’t have a notifications setting but still can do notifications that buzz and make a sound.

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

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Post by TheOperator »

waheoo wrote: post #239
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.

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.

Old reddit users are last I checked in the Reddit traffic stats I had access to around 1-2% of active posters, and mobile overall is thumping desktop reddit several times over.

By the time New Reddit was launched old reddit wasn't even the primary way to view the site anymore. Nowadays new reddit crushes old reddit. Reddit doesn't need it's old users, it doesn't need you, and it doesn't need me. It could kill off old reddit today and it would be fine.

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Post by TheOperator »

encom wrote: post #364
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.

Yea, but those niche subreddits are getting rarer and rarer. There's some kind of goldilocks zone where subs are popular enough to be active with interesting content, but not popular enough to devolve into no-effort meme spam. Or possibly terrible moderation ruins the sub completely. Or the official Reddit fun-police shuts you down. I left that cess pool behind about a year ago, and I don't miss it.

I've seen no evidence niche subreddits in general are dying because Reddit's growth in general is so strong and a rising tide lifts all boats. I've seen niche subreddits climb in traffic steadily even as their overall ranking on reddit declines.

I just would have guessed new reddit would have started the decline years ago but the apex hasn't even been reached yet. Still I do think the apex is coming just because of the sheer user hostility of Reddit.

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Post by remram »

DethNinja wrote: post #82
remram wrote: post #73

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Do you think random internet users are more likely to purchase accounts than advertising departments? The fee seems like a good way to only get posts from professional CMs. This is how you get only advertisement. And unless you put a similar fee to unlock voting, you don't prevent a whole class of issues with bots.

Voting would also require an account. Random internet user would purchase an account if service provided value for them. For example, maybe they can create forums via this system for their gaming guild etc. Yes, advertisers can purchase an account but there might be a popular moderator who bans these viral advertisements, based on popularity of ad-blocker I imagine such an moderator would get bunch of subscribers. Pe…

Do you think random internet users would purchase accounts, when they get no value from it? They can still consume all the content for free, paying only gives them the right to put free labor into curation.

I can see some users pay the fee so they can downvote opponents, but otherwise why would they? And of course they can still pay a higher fee to downvote multiple times, if they are angry enough, which is exactly what you wanted to prevent in the first place...

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Post by HeadsUpHigh »

mxcrossb wrote: post #438
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.

The problem with this strategy is you can’t discover new content so easily. They should just let you filter subs from popular, not have you create some cultivated set of subs.

Sync for reddit allows you to blacklist subs from r/all

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Post by vehemenz »

throwawaysea wrote: post #376
vehemenz wrote: post #298

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1. I agree that old.reddit.com is the only way to use Reddit. Let's hope it lasts. 2. They have made some high-profile mistakes, like banning /r/gendercritial. However, they are legally allowed to remove subreddits that they find don't align with their values (or their advertisers' values). 3. I don't think that routine opposition to extremism viewpoints is "leftist". The defining qualities of the post-Trump Republic…

I take some of your points and think you are right to call out that platforms that have a wide center but are hostile to extreme views are not echo chambers. However, I think the qualities that you are saying define post-Trump Republicans are a caricature that is convenient to believe in but not fair. Trump's unexpectedly broad support has to do more with the fact that he's willing to stand up against a far-left infl…

Many on the "left" are fed up with progressive identity politics too, but they do not pivot to extremist ideology in the way that Republicans have.

Trump's own failings are too many and self-evident that bother enumerating here. But you claim Trump's followers should not be subject to an unfair caricature. Why not? Trump came out as a racist in 2011, and the last five years have been a horror show. They've had years to self-correct. There are no positive ways left to be a Trump supporter.

Rural America used to be honest, hard-working, and moral. Now it's dishonest, lazy, and immoral. This is Trump's base. It's not their fault, but we should view them in mostly negative terms, just as we do with Islamic extremists in Europe (the only analog I can think of).

Yes, I agree that progressive activists have too much influence given their small numbers. But it doesn't make sense for Republicans to complain about progressive activists because they have opted out of mainstream society. First alt news, then alt morality, and now alt reality.

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Post by MeinBlutIstBlau »

Trill-I-Am wrote: post #411
MeinBlutIstBlau wrote: post #381

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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?

Pornography can vile yet ISP's don't take them down even though they could. Why can't reddit do the same thing? 4chan exists as well yet they haven't been taken down.

This is why I disagree with the argument that reddit hasn't taken down any subreddits that "werent vile." If someone is on the internet, they're going to find something they're interested in. ISP's can't stop it for web traffic, why should reddit be treated any differently?

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Post by MeinBlutIstBlau »

robswc wrote: post #389
MeinBlutIstBlau wrote: post #379

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Or saying anything remotely positive about a republican. Instant downvotes. Doesn't matter who, where, or what it's about. Republican did something to better his constituency? NO HE WAS JUST DOING IT FOR KICKBACKS! Reddit effectively has trained their users to only reinforce liberal ideals, otherwise face the downvote machine.

Yep. It is incredibly polarized. I would say at this point the democrats only get a pass because they are "marginally better than republicans" according to reddit. Should have seen some of the stuff they were saying about Biden before he won the primaries. Lot of racism, lot of hatred behind it. I was shocked.

And Kamala too. It's like reddit is the democratic platform of "no integrity." Why reddit democrats didn't actively vote against the democratic platform this election goes to show they kowtow to everything the party says because of what you said, "they're marginally better than republicans."

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Post by ajsnigrutin »

intricatedetail wrote: post #447
0xy wrote: post #420

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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.

There are people who can do engineering done without feeling proud or particular care about ethics. I've seen those at uni. Looking at IT through the money lens and no personal projects, no dev work outside of study, no books that are not absolutely necessary etc.

I mean.... you have to eat... if reddit pays you enough to make shitty software... why not. I'm sure they have a gajillion teams doing A/B testing, and using only advertising metrics to decide how it looks and what it does, so it's not really the devs choice of what to do,... they just have to implement it.

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Post by ObsoleteNerd »

fizx wrote: post #422
ObsoleteNerd wrote: post #394

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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.

Which platform?

Safari on iOS. Reddit is basically unusable without an account via web.
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