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Worth noting that Reddit might become a competition to Facebook in a year or so. They recently introduced a trial of followable users, that you can subscribe t

by kolinko 10y ago

Worth noting that Reddit might become a competition to Facebook in a year or so. They recently introduced a trial of followable users, that you can subscribe to, just like you subscribe to subreddits. It's de facto the same mechanism that Facebook has with user walls. Once they roll it out to everyone, Reddit will be quite similar, sans the real name policy.

throwaway91111 10y ago
Reddit and facebook are both inherently echo chambers.
bigbugbag 10y ago
Reddit is still alive ? And they plan to kill it faster by adding facebook-like features. Well too bad but it seems that every time a quality website gets too popular the quality goes down the drain and the people who made the website great in the first place move away to greener pastures then the website gets sold, sells out or evolves into something else in a desperate attempt to recapture its now gone past. HN is one exception to this, but has HN ever got hugely popular or is it limited to a certain category of people ?
rayalez 10y ago
Wasn't it always possible with friending and https://www.reddit.com/r/friends/ https://www.reddit.com/r/friends/? If you're in on the trial, can you share a screenshot?
dehue 10y ago
I can't see how reddit can possibly become competition for Facebook, they work on two completely different levels and cater to different circles of people. Facebook is about following your real life friends, local events, brands and interacting with people that you know. Reddit is a pseudo anonymous forum where people interact within communities based on interests and topics and reach out to as many people as possible. Even with the introduction of profiles, reddit can't exactly replace Facebook since Facebook is tied to your real life identity, your actual friends and family rather than random Internet people and that aspect of it is what makes it popular and hard to get away from. Even if some functions of them overlap, I just don't see how they could directly compete with one another. You are likely not going to post photos of your family dinner to Reddit because that would be extremely boring to anyone not within your family or friends circle. On the other hand, it wouldn't make much sense to post a link to a blog post on a complicated programming or science topic to Facebook and expect to get much discussion on it unless you happen to be friends with lots of people knowledgeable on that topic. They are two different platforms with different purposes. Unless one or the other drastically changes their entire interface and function, I doubt one will compete with the other any time soon.

by kolinko 10y ago

throwaway91111 10y ago

Reddit and facebook are both inherently echo chambers.

bigbugbag 10y ago

Reddit is still alive ? And they plan to kill it faster by adding facebook-like features. Well too bad but it seems that every time a quality website gets too popular the quality goes down the drain and the people who made the website great in the first place move away to greener pastures then the website gets sold, sells out or evolves into something else in a desperate attempt to recapture its now gone past. HN is one exception to this, but has HN ever got hugely popular or is it limited to a certain category of people ?

rayalez 10y ago

Wasn't it always possible with friending and https://www.reddit.com/r/friends/ https://www.reddit.com/r/friends/? If you're in on the trial, can you share a screenshot?

dehue 10y ago

I can't see how reddit can possibly become competition for Facebook, they work on two completely different levels and cater to different circles of people. Facebook is about following your real life friends, local events, brands and interacting with people that you know. Reddit is a pseudo anonymous forum where people interact within communities based on interests and topics and reach out to as many people as possible. Even with the introduction of profiles, reddit can't exactly replace Facebook since Facebook is tied to your real life identity, your actual friends and family rather than random Internet people and that aspect of it is what makes it popular and hard to get away from. Even if some functions of them overlap, I just don't see how they could directly compete with one another. You are likely not going to post photos of your family dinner to Reddit because that would be extremely boring to anyone not within your family or friends circle. On the other hand, it wouldn't make much sense to post a link to a blog post on a complicated programming or science topic to Facebook and expect to get much discussion on it unless you happen to be friends with lots of people knowledgeable on that topic. They are two different platforms with different purposes. Unless one or the other drastically changes their entire interface and function, I doubt one will compete with the other any time soon.