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Steemit Surpasses Reddit in User Engagement

8 points by snorlock 10y ago

personjerry 10y ago
But it doesn't have anywhere near the number of users Reddit does... User engagement goes down with number of users, so it's really not a good metric for the "popularity" or even "value" of a site.
- snorlock 10y ago
  The user base have been exploding lately but user engagement is still keeping up. But yeah I agree with that user engagement goes down with the number of users increase, but for now that statement doesnt hold.
grabcocque 10y ago
I mean, Reddi's community has a well-deserved reputation for being a shitshow. So what does this probe'?
- neotek 10y ago
  Reddit's community is much-maligned, but it's just a reflection of humanity as a whole. For every angry white male there are thousands of perfectly reasonable people just doing their thing in some small, obscure subreddit, surrounded by like-minded friends who just want to shoot the shit about knitting[1], or bagels[2], or flamenco[3], or the world outside their window[4]. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/casualknitting/ https://www.reddit.com/r/casualknitting/ [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/bagels https://www.reddit.com/r/bagels [3] https://www.reddit.com/r/Flamenco/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Flamenco/ [4] https://www.reddit.com/r/coffeewithaview/ https://www.reddit.com/r/coffeewithaview/
  - exo762 10y ago
    > angry white male It's pretty telling when one can define their political enemies by both gender and race. Identity politics got it's can of whoppass in 90ties. Are new generations really doomed to repeat mistakes of past generations?
    - neotek 10y ago
      Apologies for the ambiguity - for what it's worth, I only use the term ironically here since that's the vision most anti-reddit people seem to have of reddit's userbase, I probably should have put it in "quotes". Reddit is a diverse place and there's more than enough room for everybody. I don't buy into all of this identity politics bullshit, dismissing someone for their race, gender, social status, sexuality, and so on is regressive and precisely people should be railing against, not perpetuating.
robtaylor 10y ago
Is alexa a benchmark that people actually use? It was a very low weighted indicator when I did analysis on domains back in '05, has it improved since?
- snorlock 10y ago
  Im not really sure, i posted this to get a hype around steemit, but I did not write the article.
neotek 10y ago
Attracting a highly engaged crowd of people is easy when that crowd is small and you're operating in a niche; attracting a highly engaged crowd of hundreds of millions of people over a broad and diverse range of niches is a slightly greater challenge.
- snorlock 10y ago
  Reddit has lived for years, steemit was discovered by the masses in june.

8 points by snorlock 10y ago

But it doesn't have anywhere near the number of users Reddit does... User engagement goes down with number of users, so it's really not a good metric for the "popularity" or even "value" of a site.

snorlock 10y ago
The user base have been exploding lately but user engagement is still keeping up. But yeah I agree with that user engagement goes down with the number of users increase, but for now that statement doesnt hold.

grabcocque 10y ago

I mean, Reddi's community has a well-deserved reputation for being a shitshow. So what does this probe'?

neotek 10y ago
Reddit's community is much-maligned, but it's just a reflection of humanity as a whole. For every angry white male there are thousands of perfectly reasonable people just doing their thing in some small, obscure subreddit, surrounded by like-minded friends who just want to shoot the shit about knitting[1], or bagels[2], or flamenco[3], or the world outside their window[4]. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/casualknitting/ https://www.reddit.com/r/casualknitting/ [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/bagels https://www.reddit.com/r/bagels [3] https://www.reddit.com/r/Flamenco/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Flamenco/ [4] https://www.reddit.com/r/coffeewithaview/ https://www.reddit.com/r/coffeewithaview/
- exo762 10y ago
  > angry white male It's pretty telling when one can define their political enemies by both gender and race. Identity politics got it's can of whoppass in 90ties. Are new generations really doomed to repeat mistakes of past generations?
  - neotek 10y ago
    Apologies for the ambiguity - for what it's worth, I only use the term ironically here since that's the vision most anti-reddit people seem to have of reddit's userbase, I probably should have put it in "quotes". Reddit is a diverse place and there's more than enough room for everybody. I don't buy into all of this identity politics bullshit, dismissing someone for their race, gender, social status, sexuality, and so on is regressive and precisely people should be railing against, not perpetuating.

robtaylor 10y ago

Is alexa a benchmark that people actually use? It was a very low weighted indicator when I did analysis on domains back in '05, has it improved since?

snorlock 10y ago
Im not really sure, i posted this to get a hype around steemit, but I did not write the article.

neotek 10y ago

Attracting a highly engaged crowd of people is easy when that crowd is small and you're operating in a niche; attracting a highly engaged crowd of hundreds of millions of people over a broad and diverse range of niches is a slightly greater challenge.

snorlock 10y ago
Reddit has lived for years, steemit was discovered by the masses in june.