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Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by rolleiflex »

mhink wrote: post #25
ProAm wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Not much to do about v.reddit, but you can disable the redesign in your user preferences, and as for comments- unsubscribe from the default subreddits and then go subscribe to specific, smaller subs that catch your interest. /r/SubredditOfTheDay, /r/TinySubredditOfTheDay, and /r/Serendipity are great ways to find out about about new subs. (Unfortunately, there's not much to do about the mobile app, which is pretty bo…

Disabling the new design still requires you to be signed in, though. I don’t sign in most of the time I’m using Reddit. (Which makes for poor monetisation, and even being able to disable the new redesign only when signed in is a win for them over the current situation.)

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by propogandist »

cm2012 wrote: post #28
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

Imagine FB's data attached (by email or cookie) to Reddit's screentime - would easily quadruple Reddit's ad revenue with the same ad inventory. If they got away with it without driving away Redditors, would be salivation worthy as a marketer. Reddit's main traffic problem for advertisers is that most users don't really subscribe to subreddits or make accounts, but rather browse the front page casually. So you can tar…

they started tracking outbound links for all users sometime ago and offer the ability to advertise to users based on their browsing behavior, keywords, community affiliation when I'd investigated last year. They were expecting an overhaul of their platform this year, so I imagine targeting has only improved for un-registered users.

I don't believe Reddit (owned by Conde Nast, a subsidary of Advance Publications) has any intentions to sell the platform outright, as they essentially get to control the v̶o̶i̶c̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶i̶n̶t̶e̶r̶n̶e̶t̶ front page of the internet.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by edaemon »

css wrote: post #49
edaemon wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(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

Sorry, I thought you mistook it for the person talking about /r/politics.

I agree that a direct comparison of activity levels isn't all that sensible. I was just surprised that TD has lost nearly 50% of its activity while the rest of Reddit has grown, even growing in the subject area TD is a part of.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by saternius »

avar wrote: post #48

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.

Totally agree. This skewed metric is why r/AskOuija is massively overrepresented.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by dunmalg »

rolleiflex wrote: post #51
mhink wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not much to do about v.reddit, but you can disable the redesign in your user preferences, and as for comments- unsubscribe from the default subreddits and then go subscribe to specific, smaller subs that catch your interest. /r/SubredditOfTheDay, /r/TinySubredditOfTheDay, and /r/Serendipity are great ways to find out about about new subs. (Unfortunately, there's not much to do about the mobile app, which is pretty bo…

Disabling the new design still requires you to be signed in, though. I don’t sign in most of the time I’m using Reddit. (Which makes for poor monetisation, and even being able to disable the new redesign only when signed in is a win for them over the current situation.)

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

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by Hypx »

saternius wrote: post #22
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.

There were a handful of visualizations posted on r/dataisbeautiful a while back that compared the social media giants. https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/87q8pn/the... https://imgur.com/gallery/c4Wzo https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/8yma4e/oc_... https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/8ahy05/int...

Looks like Reddit is still growing where the others are shrinking.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by Hypx »

liftbigweights wrote: post #26
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.

Here you go. Reddit was always bigger than snapchat. They are about the same size as twitter. https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-net... Note that FB owns 4 out of the top 6 social media platforms on that list. That's how dominant FB really is.

Depending on the definition of "active user." In particular, Facebook can be filled with your once-a-month users, who are basically non-active users.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by mario0b1 »

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

Well, it might not be "normie compatible", but there still is 4chan, which is a lot "old internet". I can understand that people do not like it and why it is that way though. But the point is: There are still sites out there which are like the old internet. They are obviously just not mainstream. They never were really (except reddit maybe). You just gotta find your little niche place and maybe look around every now and then, but they still exist.

Edit: No, i don't talk about /pol/. No one likes the right-wing /pol/-scum. That's not 4chan.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by nurino »

Personally I wonder if Reddit can do something about the low quality of their comments in the big subs. All comment sections are full of idiots making bad puns. It's terrible, much much worse than youtube ever was or that twitter currently is.

Re: The Growth of Reddit

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Post by AcerbicZero »

edaemon wrote: post #23
css wrote: 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.

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.

I also found it interesting that post-election, the tone of the content started to shift dramatically. t_d has turned into a mirror of r/politics, and in the process lost their entire original style.
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