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A comment on Ask HN: Why number of upvotes is much higher these days?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Why number of upvotes is much higher these days? by marttt on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @01:49AM (#38527826)
Interestingly, in my country, people seem to be also migrating from Facebook et al to Reddit. Our main local, country-specific subreddit is clearly gaining users these days. (FB has been heavily used by the entire society here.)

I haven't followed this -- what's the demographic shift of Reddit about?

Aside of that, I think somebody on HN also pointed out that it is now easier to get downvotes here, because of an emerging trend to use downvote as an indicator of disagreeing with the OP or GP. Maybe the rise in upvotes is also part of the same "paradigm shift" (which I personally wouldn't like).

It would actually be great to have a HN user-level option that hides all vote/point counts, including the ones given to your own posts. Can probably be easily done with some browser addon, though, but a HN option would be nicer.

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Re:Ask HN: Why number of upvotes is much higher these days? by joegibbs on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @02:43AM (#38528094)
Reddit is going for an IPO soonish and they're trying to bump up their user numbers, so they're trying to get a different audience to their core 18-35 Anglosphere white male tech workers that were probably 90% of the userbase 10-15 years ago. To do that they're boosting subs for things like celebrity gossip, the royals, things focused on regions like India or the Philippines. Have a look at the top growing subreddits and there'll be a lot of those topics, and compare what the front page looked like a year or two ago to now, it's probably 25% now vs nothing at all back then.
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