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I'm willing to bet that the biggest threat to reddit is facebook groups. If you check facebook groups, it's slowly becoming reddit. The only things they're doin
by baby 5y ago
I'm willing to bet that the biggest threat to reddit is facebook groups. If you check facebook groups, it's slowly becoming reddit. The only things they're doing wrong is:
- Discoverability. It's hard to find groups on Facebook, whereas reddit puts a lot of effort into this. It's also somewhat of a culture on reddit to mention other subreddits.
- UI. Facebook is copying the news feed UI for its groups instead of going with more customizable (or perhaps closer to reddit) UIs.
- Discussions. Comments in a FB group still suck massively compared to reddit comments.
- Curation. You still can't upvote, or see what posts are trending, etc. on FB Groups. They need to give more options to group moderators for creating different kind of spaces.
I'm convinced that if FB would allow group admins to make their group look like reddit, reddit would die overnight.
- sedatk 5y agoReddit does a good job curating the content from its groups to its front page. Facebook no such facility, no r/all. Also, there are too many duplicate groups on Reddit, causing a lot of noise. Reddit managed to keep mostly one sub per topic which adds to the curation quality.
- baby 5y agoGood point, r/all is a good gateway to discovering more subreddits. I think FB could emulate that by showing you a default frontpage based on your location. They really ought to have a separation between a "friends" newsfeed and a "local" newsfeed.
- sedatk 5y agoEDIT: there too many duplicate groups on FACEBOOK not Reddit.
- usaar333 5y agoIs Facebook willing to allow pseudonyms? Unless they are, they are barely in the same market.
- baby 5y agoI think the number of people who are unwilling to share funny videos or local tips because they want to use a pseudonym are in the minority. Hell, people are discovering internet nowadays by creating an account with their real name.