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Re:Reddit is currently down by bnralt on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @07:36PM (#35161138)
It's interesting comparing the relatively calm discussion here to Reddit being down for hours (and still down as I type this) to the hyperbolic comments people were making about the death of Twitter when Twitter briefly had some issues the other day[1] (the site wasn't down but had some issues, and they were resolved in less than an hour).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35043433

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Re:Reddit is currently down by kredd on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @07:44PM (#35161252)
Reddit isn't really used as "defacto source of breaking news". I mean, local subreddits and other things stiff get prompt information, but it doesn't get as much wide coverage as Twitter.
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Re:Reddit is currently down by RosanaAnaDana on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @08:25PM (#35161815)
Well it was for a while. Then they got someone killed during the whole Boston thing. So you know, theres that..
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Re:Reddit is currently down by Mojave3 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @08:50PM (#35162090)
What? They didn't get anyone killed.
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Re:Reddit is currently down by wlonkly on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @09:26PM (#35177008)
Sunil Tripathi committed suicide, and while missing was named as one of the Boston bombers by a bunch of Reddit detectives leading to harrassment of his family, but I don't think the suicide was a result of being misidentified.

I think that's where the GP's mistake originated, though, since there was a public misidentification of someone who committed suicide.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Suicide_of_Sunil_Tripathi

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Re:Reddit is currently down by marcellus23 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @09:04PM (#35162233)
Reddit was never on the level of Twitter in terms of real-time news relevancy. Tweets are broadcast on television and used as sources for news stories constantly.
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Re:Reddit is currently down by midoridensha on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @09:04PM (#35162229)
Would the world care if HN died suddenly? Almost no one would even notice.

Reddit is really little different from HN; it's just bigger.

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Re:Reddit is currently down by tshaddox on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @09:46PM (#35162604)
Reddit also wasn’t just the subject of a ton of understandable attention and skepticism about how the site would continue to operate.
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