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Re:The Growth of Reddit by matt4077 on Monday October 29, 2018 @06:02PM (#18331966)
Facebook and Reddit serve far too different purposes in my life to make sense of a comparison. I might just have grown too old, but the talk of Reddit (or instagram etc.) replacing FB don't seem to make very much sense, as long as FB is the go-to platform for connecting with real-world acquaintances.

I literally have no connections on FB to people I haven't met in person, and don't know a single friend's reddit account.

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Re:The Growth of Reddit by netsharc on Monday October 29, 2018 @06:29PM (#18332196)
FB also has pages that post memes/pics/news/Russian propaganda, and thousands and thousands of people commenting underneath them (tragically mostly to make their friends aware of the content by mentioning their names), so that's their reddit/forums competition.

But unlike forums, most of the conversation on Facebook is 20 comments at a time and you can't just link to page X of some conversation...

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