- Which Web sites get the most traffic? According to the ranking service Alexa, the top three sites in the United States, as of this writing, are Google, YouTube, and Facebook. (Porn, somewhat hearteningly, doesn’t crack the top ten.) The rankings don’t reflect everything—the dark Web, the nouveau-riche recluses harvesting bitcoin—but, for the most part, people online go where you’d expect them to go. The only truly surprising entry, in fourth place, is Reddit, whose astronomical popularity seems at odds with the fact that many Americans have only vaguely heard of the site and have no real understanding of what it is. A link aggregator? A microblogging platform? A social network?
https://snap.stanford.edu/conflict/ Key take away: A small number of communities initiate most conflicts, with 1% of communities initiating 74% of all conflicts. The image above shows a 2-dimensional map of the various Reddit communities. The red nodes/communities in this map initiate a large amount of conflict, and we can see that these conflict intiating nodes are rare and clustered together in certain social regions. These communities attack other communities that are similar in topic but different in point of view.
I sort of miss the old, naive Terry Gross who once asked Rick Rubin if the song "Hurt" was about cutting yourself. Pining for the good old George W Bush days when lions still killed lambs, but then the lions didn't pretend like they had never heard of lambs, and anyone who claims that they like the taste of lambs is a very bad person and is colluding with Russia and the liberal media to make up stories about how much lions like the taste of lambs. Many people don't know this, but lions are actually vegetarians.
A golden era where newscasters didn't have to parse the seven dirty words to determine if they apply when presidential candidates say them? Whether the president using the term "shithole" made the term "shithole" acceptable on the 5 o'clock news? When Sean Hannity had nothing more important to rag about than mustard? When "Ted Nugent, Sarah Palin and Kid Rock" was something in Cards Against Humanity, not CNN? Got a friend. He mixed Omarosa on the Apprentice and mixed her again on Big Brother. In between she was the "Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison at the White House." If I begin to catalog the things that I miss I shall never finish.
How?!who once asked Rick Rubin if the song "Hurt" was about cutting yourself
"May you live in interesting times" - Chinese Curse * * Well that was technically a translation error, but you get the point
Quote 1 It seems that sub-reddits, as a place for horribleness to congregate, is the problem. We don't have sub-reddits. We have tags... I just looked at our tags and they all seem pretty damn wholesome. We sometimes have a lot of spam, but it seems that bestiality and hate have never taken hold here -- or have I missed something? (I'd rather not know).Is it possible to facilitate a space for open dialogue without also facilitating hoaxes, harassment, and threats of violence?
ummm, Hubski?
There are only 50-60 real, active users here. The morons come in, act like morons and their engagement falls to zero fairly quickly. Since these style of people feed on attention and drama, and since Hubski is really good at denying them this oxygen they desperately need to live, they go elsewhere. If you want to post bestiality or other terrible stuff? There are multiple other sites where that style of content won't stick out and even some where that content would be encouraged because outrage and shock are 'funny' to some people. I'd list a few that I've run across but doing so helps them in the Google rankings, so no.
The fundamental DNA of Reddit is built on engagement and proliferation. It is designed to generate inbound links first and foremost, and gamifies the generation of inbound links. As it evolved they've welded on bits to gamify the generation of internal links but it's still basically a click farm. Controversy sells. Reddit sells a lot of controversy. That's their metric. Period.
I think for now, we can't really tell because we're a really small community. Let's say a bestiality group takes up refuge here and only interacts under their own #bestiality tags... sure we could all ignore them. But then, it's the same old subreddit problem again. I think we have a different and better system here, but we can't truly know the limits until it gets a big overload - kind of like the reddit invasions we get.
The tags are much better than the subreddits. You can't sit on a tag and create a unified culture around it like you can a sub. If you make a The_Donald tag, you can't ban liberals from using it, and thus anyone on that tag will see all kinds of things. If you're on Reddit you moderate that sub, anything you don't like can be filtered away from the audience thus pushing radicalization. Reddit has that structure problem -- it's designed ground up to facilitate factions and filter bubbles where you can spend your time reading only things you agree with and nothing else.
Undoubtedly, Reddit's userbase is too smart if compared to Facebook's. I love using Reddit, I have learned more things in less than a year from Reddit than my 8 years of Facebook-ing!
Not surprised to see reddit on number 4, more than 70% of the sites traffic is from the US I believe
reddit is surprising? are you serious? everyone person that I know of know about reddit, it's called front page of the internet for a reason