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Not shocked honestly. A lot of Reddit users are against the idea of being advertised to or having their data sold. In addition to this semi-anonymous and throw

Not shocked honestly. A lot of Reddit users are against the idea of being advertised to or having their data sold. In addition to this semi-anonymous and throwaway accounts are common which must lower the worth of any data collected. I personally have 3 different accounts, One for work, one for politics and a final one for games. I'm more then happy to rotate (throw away and recreate) any of these accounts at any time.

shaki-dora 8y ago
Populations are just different among the networks. Facebook is probably closest to “all people”. Twitter skews towards urban professionals. Instagram has the artsy/fashion-conscious crowd. Pinterest attracts more traditional women. Reddit, for its part, attracts the young, male underclass. Not exclusively, of course. I have an account myself, so don’t feel insulted. That demographic just isn’t as valuable, unless you’re selling games or conspiracies. They have neither money nor power.
- dageshi 8y ago
  I would say that was true until 2-3 years ago, my sense is reddit has broadened out a lot recently.
  - mschaef 8y ago
    I tend to agree with you. I joined Reddit back before the time they allowed sub-reddits to be created at well. My view of the site was more or less entirely /r/programming, which had a post celebrating 65,536 users. This was also around the time they switched from using Lisp to Python: https://redditblog.com/2005/12/05/on-lisp/ https://redditblog.com/2005/12/05/on-lisp/ Then at some point, the site opened up sub-reddit creation and a vast new world popped up around 'me' that I was completely oblivious to. (And /r/programming is now at 1,700,000 users...) The site's changed a lot over the years, and not necessarily in ways that are immediately obvious. (But that lisp post is almost 15 years old, so maybe that shouldn't be a surprise.)
  - swarnie_ 8y ago
    I think its heavily depends on the subreddit. The only one i know that collects regular user data is /r/ukpol where 90% of users are white males between 18 and 30.

shaki-dora 8y ago

Populations are just different among the networks. Facebook is probably closest to “all people”. Twitter skews towards urban professionals. Instagram has the artsy/fashion-conscious crowd. Pinterest attracts more traditional women. Reddit, for its part, attracts the young, male underclass. Not exclusively, of course. I have an account myself, so don’t feel insulted. That demographic just isn’t as valuable, unless you’re selling games or conspiracies. They have neither money nor power.

dageshi 8y ago
I would say that was true until 2-3 years ago, my sense is reddit has broadened out a lot recently.
- mschaef 8y ago
  I tend to agree with you. I joined Reddit back before the time they allowed sub-reddits to be created at well. My view of the site was more or less entirely /r/programming, which had a post celebrating 65,536 users. This was also around the time they switched from using Lisp to Python: https://redditblog.com/2005/12/05/on-lisp/ https://redditblog.com/2005/12/05/on-lisp/ Then at some point, the site opened up sub-reddit creation and a vast new world popped up around 'me' that I was completely oblivious to. (And /r/programming is now at 1,700,000 users...) The site's changed a lot over the years, and not necessarily in ways that are immediately obvious. (But that lisp post is almost 15 years old, so maybe that shouldn't be a surprise.)
- swarnie_ 8y ago
  I think its heavily depends on the subreddit. The only one i know that collects regular user data is /r/ukpol where 90% of users are white males between 18 and 30.