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

Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US by dageshi on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @03:38PM (#17191019)

I am also a long time reddit user, 10 or so years at this point. It's not obvious to me that reddit is particularly different than it was in the past. There's just more of it now.

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Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US by liotier on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @04:18PM (#17191369)

It depends: each subreddit is its own little world

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Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US by doctorsher on Thursday May 31, 2018 @01:42PM (#17198386)

Personally, I think the last few years have seen more issues with brigading and bad / unethical subreddit moderators. But other than that, I agree completely.

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Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US by akie on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @04:42PM (#17191584)

As another long time (10 year) reddit user: agreed.

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Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US by draw_down on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @05:08PM (#17191800)

Yes, that's my feeling as well.

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Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US by fudged71 on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @05:44PM (#17192131)

If you browse /r/all/top?t=day it is VERY different from a few years ago

I remember the first slide to anarchy was vague titles. "This." or "Good boy" etc would never be upvoted. Instead you would have long descriptive titles that summarized the link.

Images became far more common to share, with imgur and then reddit providing hosting.

Subreddit politics got crazy between moderators of large subreddits and between admins and users when very questionable subreddits started popularizing.

US politics happened. Conspiracies and fake news and then The_Donald somehow taking over half of the entire front page.

I still love using reddit for the smaller communities, but to say it hasn't changed is so false. You can rewind and check out archives of the site from 10 years ago and you'll see.

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Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US by Macha on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @07:33PM (#17192801)

Really? f7u12 was really big early on, as was wtf, politics, atheism (back when the sub was way more crapping on religion) and videos:

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.gawkera...

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