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Was digg as big as reddit is now? The issue for me is I don't know of other good places for long-form discussion and good link aggregation in general. Most of
by andrewzah 6y ago
Was digg as big as reddit is now?
The issue for me is I don't know of other good places for long-form discussion and good link aggregation in general. Most of the time in smaller subreddits there aren't really any issues.
What alternative is there to /r/AskHistorians? Etc.
- postalrat 6y agoBig as in #1? Yea.
- ncallaway 6y agoSure, but there's #1 in a market with 4% control of the market, vs #1 in a market with 85% control of the market. The absolute rank doesn't really tell you where the next closest competitor is.
- postalrat 6y agoIs facebook and twitter in the same market as reddit? Digg was pretty big for the time. The competitor I used the most back then was slashdot and I'd say digg was considerably bigger.
- SV_BubbleTime 6y agoI think history has shown us that “too big to fail“ isn’t a real thing. That “big enough to get a bailout” is real, but I’m not sure if this would apply to Reddit’s future. I have an idea that the future will not be in content silos and volunteer moderation by power hungry people... but I certainly don’t know how to get there so I’ll wait. I suspect the future will be “subscription lists” you join that block things people you generally agree with flagged, but this may bubble issue like we have now.
- root_axis 6y agoThe "market" in this case is completely nebulous and demonstrably not zero sum. For example, the appearance of tiktok did not shrink YouTube, FB, reddit or any other big site.
- nonbirithm 6y agoThis is the saddest thing, in my opinion. Everything is a content silo. To get "genuine" opinions on anything relevant to the past six years I have to append "site:reddit.com" to all my searches. It seems that setting up independent phpbb communities has fallen out of favor with the convenience of starting off with a much larger audience. But the downsides of letting a single org host and moderate all of these communities are apparent. I mean, their tagline "the front page of the Internet" screams arrogance to me, in the face of what Tim Berners-Lee envisioned the Internet to be, and yet it's probably not wrong at this point.
- dannyw 6y agoThe web not having frictioness and anonymity-preseving single sign on is one of the biggest missed opportunities.
- Shorel 6y agoIt was destined to be as big, yes. There is no popular alternative now, but something could appear eventually.
- yawaworht1978 6y agoStackexchange and maybe Quora.