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Ask HN: What is the difference between HN and Reddit?
I see many parallels between Reddit and HN discussions. What is the unique nature of HN that truly differentiates it from Reddit? Is it the composition of posters? Or the moderation scheme?
- sp332 5y agoHN has less humor, and the top-voted comment on any given story is usually a contrarian take.
- rogerkirkness 5y agoAgency.
- krapp 5y agoHacker News takes itself too seriously, and is pathologically afraid of "turning into Reddit," whereas Reddit knows what it is and accepts it, warts and all.
- MerelyMortal 5y agoReddit has many subreddits, but there is only one HN "feed". Moderating is done very differently. The people here are also likely very different on average. HN is also not mainstream.
- effie 5y agoHN has user friendly interface. Reddit is almost unusable.