Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

Post by dfxm12 » Thu, May 31, 2018, 3:18 PM UTC

zrobotics wrote: post #358

varrock wrote: post #333

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> I also dislike reddit because it's hard to remember a name constantly. It's easier when there's a little profile picture next to the name. You go, "oh yeah, that guy. He's helpful." You remember those posters more often. To me, personally, I like Reddit because this kind of association is more difficult. I like reading a comment and not having any bias towards the user.

I think it depends on the hobby/forum. The parent mentioned automotive forums, and I would agree that I would much rather remember certain posters. The best written posts aren't always right, for some reason there's a large subset of people who will write an informative-sounding post containing incorrect information. If I'm asking what valve lash specs are or which pin # on a connector is the + EGR solenoid, then I d…

Post by NullPrefix » Thu, May 31, 2018, 3:24 PM UTC

tenryuu wrote: post #16

tammer wrote: post #5

I've recently been thinking that Reddit holds a lot of potential that has yet to be tapped or expired. The recent pivots post CEO change (mobile app, redesign, crackdown on garbage) speak to a future where currently fractured private communities such as those on Discourse or Slack can find a more publicly accessible presence. Facebook Groups, while immensely popular, currently falls into the same opt-in, zero-discove…

Facebook also tending to restrict access to information behind a login. Compared to reddit, which most of its content is publicly visible. They are built on two very ideas though. The amount of times I have to ask someone on Facebook to get information for me is upsetting. To clarify, I'm banned from Facebook, not for being a dickhead though

Post by vanderZwan » Thu, May 31, 2018, 3:25 PM UTC

brownbat wrote: post #539

vanderZwan wrote: post #470

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> Reddit has movements like hail corporate trying to self-police dishonesty and manipulative behavior. Self-policing can also be manipulated. You cannot rely on user-intent alone, you need some structural protection against these kinds of things. Although I don't know what the best kind is.

I didn't mean to imply hail corporate completely fixed anything, at its worst it's unsubstantiated allegations. Just pointing out that true names didn't inoculate Facebook, which doesn't even get as far as that problematic response. That's why I said anonymity is orthogonal--that was my main point. For example, anonymity is easier on HN, and I prefer our comments to FB. On the other hand, I'm not typing this on 4chan…

Post by alien_at_work » Thu, May 31, 2018, 3:29 PM UTC

vatueil wrote: post #176

fein wrote: post #123

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And for the majority of the large subs for a specific interest, they are astroturfed to hell and back. Much of the content you see on /r/all is likely corporate shilling with sock puppets controlling the promotion of the item and the comments within. There should be Moore's/ Poe's law for the correlation of the size and influence of a site to the amount of corporate influence on said site. As the natural user base gr…

> And for the majority of the large subs for a specific interest, they are astroturfed to hell and back. Much of the content you see on /r/all is likely corporate shilling with sock puppets controlling the promotion of the item and the comments within. And even more common than actual shilling is unsubstantiated accusations of shilling. You could be right, I grant you, but anecdotally more cases of the latter stick o…

Post by gcb0 » Thu, May 31, 2018, 3:39 PM UTC

wuliwong wrote: post #381

cm2012 wrote: post #59

Keep in mind: 1) Most Facebook users use the app, not the website, which Alexa doesn't track (Which is also why Facebook doesn't fear commonly used ad blockers). 2) Alexa uses a number of metrics to rank sites, including pages visited. Reddit users load many more individual pages than FB users. In reality, Reddit is nowhere near close to the traffic and engagement leviathan that is Facebook.

While this maybe true, none of what you mention has changed recently but this ranking did. This ranking change at least points to a trend. Maybe the percentage of mobile use is increasing at faster rate on FB vs Reddit, recently. But according to the nextweb link someone shared in this thread, FB had nearly 90% of their traffic via mobile already in 2016.