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

Post by rsync » Thu, May 31, 2018, 7:54 PM UTC

ajryan wrote: post #284

rsync wrote: post #166

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"I'd like a reddit-like site that is more exclusive, it filters out the non-serious users with a yearly subscription fee of say $100." This exists: https://www.metafilter.com/ The fee is $5 which turns out to be an insurmountable barrier for just about everyone. I personally like the site very much.

Metafilter has just about the highest groupthink quotient of any site I know of. Every single post ends up being about social justice, even when it isn't.

Post by Latteland » Thu, May 31, 2018, 8:53 PM UTC

iforgotpassword wrote: post #570

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On the email issue, I once talked to Steve (back when he was still the primary developer) about the issue, and he seemed genuinely sad about people signing up without emails mostly because people would forget their password and then couldn't log back in, and not for any nefarious purpose. Of course, now that reddit is bigger than Jesus, there probably are nefarious privacy-destroying forces at work, but even more tha…

I (try to) block all throwaway mail providers, but give users the possibility to delete the mail after confirming the account. Then I keep a salted hash of the mail address for 6 month to deny another sign up. Only reason being spam protection.

Post by Zak » Thu, May 31, 2018, 10:47 PM UTC

gitgacutils wrote: post #29

exelius wrote: post #15

Reddit works because it’s anonymous, information-dense and relatively ad-free. Change any one of those three and the user base will abandon you. It’s been Reddit’s dilemma since the beginning: you can’t monetize a toxic user base that has total freedom. Sure you can try to drive away the toxic users, but it turns out that those toxic users are also pretty influential in non-toxic aspects. I’m still skeptical of Reddi…

> Reddit works because it’s anonymous, information-dense and relatively ad-free. Reddit is none of those now. It's not anonymous ( they track your identity and feed it to the government ). You may be "anonymous" to fellow users, but not anonymous to authorities. It isn't information dense. It's propaganda dense. Almost all the content there now is government, media, ngo, etc propaganda. As for ads, check out the vide…

Post by wyclif » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 12:02 AM UTC

cryptonector wrote: post #478

coldseattle wrote: post #411

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But there is a lot of groupthink on Reddit, too. Some popular forms you just have to stay out of if you have a different opinion.

Sure, but so there is in FB. On Reddit you can have multiple accounts (all pseudonymous) and you can participate on whichever subreddits you like. If there's some sub that isn't too welcoming of your views, chances are there is another that is -- an echo chamber if you want it thus, sure, but no worse than FB.

Post by zrkrlc » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 3:01 AM UTC

Shank wrote: post #94

The biggest value gain from Reddit, to me, is the ability to centralize effectively around different hobbies and activities. In the past, if you wanted to find an online community for a movie or a game, you had to find a forum for that community. Finding forums that are well managed and capture a good segment of the community is hard -- and Reddit just becomes a default place to look now. Let's say a new TV show star…