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Map of Reddit
- gavinray 4y agoI learned you can click on the nodes to see relationships FWIW
- penneyd 4y agoCareful exploring 'Australia'
- tgmatt 4y agoI thought 'Australia' would be bigger, honestly.
- thih9 4y agoTo elaborate, the australia-like island consists of very NSFW subreddits. And yes, one should be careful with porn, consuming it in a bad way can lead to harmful coping mechanisms or problems with sex; seek help if you feel that you’re not in control.
- User23 4y agoThere is no good way to “consume” porn. At best it’s pathetic, and it can be a whole lot worse, causing actual brain damage by rewiring reward circuits. It’s similar to alcohol in that respect: there is no safe dose. I don’t say this to upset anyone, but anyone who is upset will benefit greatly from curbing the tendency toward denial and honestly asking “Am I an addict?”
- nhinck2 4y agoAll of this is of course backed by sound science right?
- thih9 4y ago> At best it’s pathetic This seems a personal opinion and unhelpful. Others might say avoiding porn is pathetic; I think this topic should be discussed without name calling. I like the comparison to alcohol. I don’t drink but I wouldn’t shame those who do (unless they have a compulsion or they drink to avoid problems).
- User23 4y ago> This seems a personal opinion and unhelpful. Others might say avoiding porn is pathetic No. Being a pathetic wanker who beats it to videos of things he lacks the agency to experience personally is in fact objectively shameful.
- SixDouble5321 4y agoOh, so it's one of those types of personal opinion.
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- Falell 4y agoBrazil is apparently a suburb of RPG.
- akomtu 4y agoNew Zealand is great too.
- henriquecm8 4y agoWhy rule34 is on the main island instead of in "Australia"?
- themanmaran 4y ago> I processed 176,178,986 unique comments that redditors left in years 2020 - 2021 and computed Jaccard Similarity between subreddits. > Each dot on the map is subreddit. Two dots within the same cluster are usually close to each other if multiple users frequently leave comments on both subreddits. More detail from the repo: https://github.com/anvaka/map-of-reddit https://github.com/anvaka/map-of-reddit
- coldcode 4y agoIncredibly interesting chart, or whatever the presentation is called.
- flatiron 4y agoI would go with “map”
- layer8 4y agocharted territories
- MonkeyClub 4y agoTerritorial chart?
- ok123456 4y agoLow-dimensional embedding.
- jslakro 4y agoJust, awesome. Recently I was trying to figure out how could explore in a more "natural" way new communities on reddit, well done
- arsome 4y agoWhy does rule 34 and most of the furry porn not fall onto porn island?
- _z2co 4y agoI guess the furries don't feel the need to create alt accounts for their porn
- pvarangot 4y agoSame reason why there's a "gay island" I guess?
- johnnyanmac 4y agoyeah, makes sense since so much anime content (or at least, a signifigant proportion more compared to western animation) already includes pretty explicit content. The line between something like Kill La Kill and kill la kill R34 is already razor thin. part of it is also community. From a quick glance I recognize that r/hentai is in anime island instead of R34. But the moderation of r/hentai has (or used to have) many moderators from other anime subs, and some regular posters will alternate between r/hentai, r/manga, or r/animemes. That can play a part in which communities decide to form and comingle.
- tmp_anon_22 4y agoI feel like moderators should receive a weighted vote when identifying connections between subreddits. Two subs with identical moderator lists must be pretty similar right?
- hombre_fatal 4y agoThat doesn’t make sense when you realize mods uphold arbitrary politics of a sub, often even more than they are just janitors.
- Rygian 4y agoBlack screen on Firefox Android.
- RistrettoMike 4y agoSame on Firefox Windows.
- encrux 4y agoAlso Firefox (97.2.0 (Build #2015863827)) on Android, for me it's working.
- xolve 4y agoWorks for me on Firefox Nightly, Android and desktop versions.
- Phrodo_00 4y agoI wonder how the broader categories were selected. I thought it could be the largest/most connected node on each cluster but that doesn't seem to be the case.
- torbTurret 4y agoThere’s actually a subreddit for this map, but can’t find it in the map itself (too meta?) : https://www.reddit.com/r/MofR/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MofR/ Also surprised how big overwatch is relative to other games. Bonus - My roommate works at Amazon and works part time with Andrei in some capacity (don’t know the full details), but anyway he has mentioned multiple times how cool and out of his way helpful Andrei is. I bring this up because when someone of any notoriety is nice I think it’s really cool. I’ve met some ‘big’ tech people who definitely weren’t!
- efreak 4y agoThe subreddit is linked of you click _improve this map_at the bottom right.
- bee_rider 4y agoJojo* appears to be a country of refugees from the Anime region, who've settled in the general gaming region. *Hopefully before anyone searches it on the map -- it appears that r/jojo was taken by some singer/actress. I was referring to the anime "Jojo's bizarre adventure," which has a capital of "r/shitpostcrusaders."
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- SemanticStrengh 4y agoHmm so actually internet is not just for porn
- SemanticStrengh 4y agoNo categories for science??
- Falell 4y agoScience has a large cluster in North Programming, and a cluster in Eastern Finance. The search is pretty good.
- encrux 4y agoIt appears above Programming when you start zooming in. Unintuitive order to put things, but it's there.
- airstrike 4y agoThat whole big Australia-like continent at the bottom is "for science"...
- SemanticStrengh 4y agoit is for senses*
- LesZedCB 4y agohow are the edges determined? i saw relative proximity is user interaction overlap, but there are discrete edges too if you click on a subreddit. i'm curious because i would like to go another step and see how many hops it takes to get from A->B
- ChrisArchitect 4y agoOriginal Show HN from author a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26624879 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26624879
- Aperocky 4y agoI'm happy and amused that KerbalSpaceProgram, NASA, SpaceX and Astronomy are placed under "Travel" and "Finance". Maybe that's where they should be.
- airstrike 4y agoI feel like these dots are so small, you have to zoom in and out constantly to go over the map... would it be possible to now take those dots and turn them into blocks that together make up 100% of the category they currently belong to? Like counties within a state
- themodelplumber 4y agoThat's a nice idea. I do wonder if it could create some border problems, where there is a need to link to some non-neighbor states, but not through other states that would otherwise be linked/shared neighbors. (I guess unless you wanted to render little overflights by airplanes or something)
- Bayart 4y agoThanks to /r/quebec, /r/france finds itself in... Canada ?
- willis936 4y agoHalifax is in Nova Scotia, which is in Canada, which is on Earth, which is in Canada. https://youtu.be/oz88kJSdT6Y https://youtu.be/oz88kJSdT6Y
- pedrosorio 4y agoThe large "Asia" region contains, besides Asian topics (the right half of the region): - Language learning communities - Latin America (except Brazil which is in the RPG region because of r/TibiaMMO) - Italy, Spain and Portugal (the latter is located between China and Japan for mysterious low-dimensionality representation reasons) Other European countries with funny locations: - Germany in the soccer region (as Gary Lineker once famously said "Football is a simple game: 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and, in the end, the Germans always win") - France in the Canada region (Quebec strong) - The Netherlands in the EDM region
- ZeWaka 4y agoHungary is with the strategy games.
- gilbertc 4y agoAnd HongKong is under Wtf.. makes sense I guess.
- Barrin92 4y ago>Portugal (the latter is located between China and Japan for mysterious low-dimensionality representation reasons) could that have a real world reason given that Macau used to be a Portuguese colony as well as Brazil hosting the largest Japanese diaspora population in the world?
- pedrosorio 4y agoSeems to be pure chance. r/brasil and others are in a very different place in the graph, and none of the subreddits related to r/portugal are connected to any of the Japanese/Chinese subreddits in the graph.
- thematrixturtle 4y agoUnlikely, because virtually nobody in Macau speaks Portuguese anymore, and Reddit is not well known in Japan. Various Japan-related subreddits are very popular, but they're populated by English speakers living in Japan, travelling to Japan, etc.
- InfoSecErik 4y agoMy methodology for discovery/linking subreddits when I did a big crawl was to look at the subreddit description and find links to other subreddits. I think that was less prone to the issues that other commenters are reporting.
- jedberg 4y agoWe built a map like this at reddit a long time ago. The methodology was pretty straightforward -- we looked at subreddits that had the same links submitted and upvoted. We used the map to power the "similar subreddits" feature. Unfortunately it suffered from a lot of spam and things like getting linked to very NSFW subreddits, and we didn't have the manpower to fix it or curate it, so the feature died.
- wrayjustin 4y agoSad to hear this wasn't able to make it into GA. But the link-relationship methodology is interesting (similar to something like PageRank through backlinks). But it's not the methodology I'd have initially gravitated towards. My first instinct would be relations based on subscription overlap. This seems like it should group commonalities based on the user interests. This may also have alleviated some of the SPAM issues. Though it would have been interesting to see both approaches merged together.
- jedberg 4y agoWe may have tried other methodologies as well, I honestly don't remember. I feel like subscription overlap was something we at least talked about, but maybe not.
- ehsankia 4y agoThat would not produce anything close to this. Is the goal to find similar subreddits, or find other non-similar subreddits the person may like? The map by OP is grouped by categories, which is quite a bit different than just interest. Even for recommendation system, I don't think it quite works here due to how extremely wide reddit is. Something like Steam or Spotify can use it, but reddit has everything from porn to cities to games. Just because I love Portal and I'm from Vancouver doesn't mean someone else who likes Portal will care about Vancouver, or vice versa.
- cmeacham98 4y agoYes, but the majority of /r/Steam users are not subscribed to /r/Vancouver (or whatever the Vancouver subreddit is). I'd wager a guess there is a much more significant overlap with related subreddits such as /r/pcgaming.
- psyc 4y agoI recognize this URL because I’ve been using this: https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/ https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/ It’s a searchable and visual graph of subreddits, mindmap style.
- penneyd 4y agoThat's super cool :)
- bsedlm 4y agoreddit actively shadowbans comments and all kinds of user created content. It was really surprising to me that they'd be shadowbanning comments I would make to reply to other people in already buried (controversial) threads.
- mkeeter 4y agoAs a Cambridge resident, I appreciate /r/Boston and /r/CambridgeMA being placed in the "Survival" category!
- willis936 4y agoBaltimore is as well, which is understandable. I'm surprised it's so far from idiotsInCars.
- nitwit005 4y agoWho knew that science and teaching were a subset of programming? Feels like something fundamental is wrong with the methodology. It appears they gave up on the large subreddits, perhaps because they were linked to everything.
- KSPAtlas 4y agoApparently hackernews is in netsec, huh.
- salmonellaeater 4y agoCan this map be better understood as groupings of users? It seems that a lot of the categories that are polyphyletic so to speak - programming grouped with science, Italy and Spain between China and Japan - make sense if you just think of them as overlapping groups of users. More specifically, the groupings would be user accounts (this distinction is important for understanding Porn Island).
- penneyd 4y agoFrom the info section - "Two dots within the same cluster are usually close to each other if multiple users frequently leave comments on both subreddits."
- proctrap 4y agoUhm, so all of the german subs are now in soccer ?!
- fartcannon 4y agoLinux under programming next to science and graphic design. Microsoft and Windows 10 in netsec(!?) along with Facebook. Google and Apple occupying a sea of banal self referential subs and consumption. Amazon is there, too just super small. Very interesting.
- shakna 4y agoConsidering how terrible Windows' netsec has been historically, that's entirely unsurprising. When you want to scream for help into the void, you might hit up both those places at once.
- fartcannon 4y agoI guess that applies to Linux and graphic design as well!
- zouhair 4y agoStarcraft 2 in RPG
- UncleOxidant 4y ago"Large Subreddits" seems kind of lazy.
- ranger207 4y agoI don't think so. The big subs have their own culture that's not as shared with the smaller subs. It's part of the reason why (and corollary to) subs get worse when they get larger
- jghn 4y agoI've had another one of their sites [1] open in a tab for several months now. Whenever I find a new to me subreddit I find interesting I look it up on this site to see what else is in the vicinity topic wise. [1] https://anvaka.github.io/sayit https://anvaka.github.io/sayit
- sitkack 4y agoSweet, I just found the https://old.reddit.com/r/bevy https://old.reddit.com/r/bevy subreddit for the Rust based game engine.
- hammock 4y agoDoesn't include quarantined subreddits, many of which are very active
- minimaxir 4y agoBack in 2016 I did a similar approach to calculate related users: one using graph similarity (https://minimaxir.com/2016/05/reddit-graph/ https://minimaxir.com/2016/05/reddit-graph/ , albeit the embeds broke) and another using jaccard similarity (like this viz) with a different approach to visualization which IMO turned out easier to interpret than a graph-based approach (https://minimaxir.com/2016/06/reddit-related-subreddits/ https://minimaxir.com/2016/06/reddit-related-subreddits/ )
- cardosof 4y agoCould we say that this is a proxy for the internet as a whole?
- jonathanlb 4y agoSurprised to not see /r/superstonk in the map
- gbh444g 4y agoGreat map. I suggest to paint active subreddits as bright circles and stale ones as dim circles, so the map would look like Europe viewed from satellite at night.
- password4321 4y agoCurious how the data was collected (and when), some subreddits shown are now banned.
- devmunchies 4y agoBrowsing this as a map was entertaining, and I don’t even use Reddit. Maybe this is a good application of the “metaverse”. Spacial association between communities.
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- dpedu 4y agoThe bulk of the groups are labeled, but the sections of "NSFW Island", I'll call it, aren't. Is there an explanation of the grouping? Some of the groups make sense (celebs, indian-themed) but I can't make heads or tails of the others.
- jsmith45 4y agoThe country names for "Australia" are (in no particular order, with lists of some of the larger circles, especially ones that suggest other clusters bundled into the country) - WorldPacks (WorldPacks, NSFWPublic, DiscordNudes as some of the larger ones) - Ebony (Ebony, GoneWildColor, OnlyFans101, TeenBeauties) - Sommer Ray (SommerRay, MegNutt, CardiB) - gonewild (gonewild, realgirls, OnOff, AsiansGoneWild) - NSFW (NSFW, Celebs, Porn, Boobies) - Blowjob (Blowjob, painal, creampies, PornVids) - NSFW Glamour (abelladanger, Miakhalifa, RileyReid, PornStarHQ) - Perky (Perky, NSFWBox, CamOrgasm, ForgotToPullOut) - Glamour (KatyPerry, EmmaWatson, ArianaGrande) - Onmww (Onmww, obsf, gilf, ErinAshford) - grool (Grool, Anal, squirting, simps) - milf (milf, Cuckold, Amateurs, GWCouples) - GoneWildPlus (GoneWildPlus, BBWGW, PerkyChubby) - feet (feet, sexsells, bdsm, gonewildaudio) - NSFW India (IndianGoneWild, RepressedGoneWild, ArabPorn) - texas nsfw (TexansGoneWild, TexasSwingers, TexasCuckoldCommunity) The names are mostly just the names of one of the larger or more centrally connected subreddits in the country, and what some of them include seems pretty arbitrary. And you can probably find "New Zealand"'s "Gay" and "Traps" countries pretty easily, and have no trouble telling them apart.
- xhrpost 4y agoI don't know why but my brain interpreted this as "Map of GitHub" and I was rather surprised that there was a GitHub repository for just GIFs and I hadn't known about it.
- DeathArrow 4y agoWhere is porn? I've certainly seen a lot of it on Reddit.
- deTalleyrand 4y agoGo south, young man
- Kostchei 4y agothis the metaverse, I mean, a metaverse, and maybe a VR 3d equivalent of this is the way to go? Curated and weighted as the user wants, not how the advertisers want... I feel like in a social environment, Just because you don't find everything you want immediately is a feature, not a bug, like getting off in a part of town you don't know and talking to a person you didn't expect. In hindsight, "11 year old explore the city me" never left - still fun 30+ years later
- willis936 4y agoEveryone here: https://youtu.be/URVS4H7vrdU https://youtu.be/URVS4H7vrdU
- izhak 4y agoHow to zoom out?.. (I've finally found that double click will zoom in)
- khanan 4y agoShould be a laaaarge overlapping country reading "gonewild"... :)
- jayd16 4y agoHow are the larger sections named? Hacking isn't in the hacking section.
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- derbOac 4y agoThe category names are often a little off. "Running" is more like endurance/cardio athletics, for example. Th methodology is cutting off edges that cross between categories too, which in some cases I think is giving a distorted idea of how the subreddits are organized.
- jhoechtl 4y agoI had no idea that reddit consists to such a large extend of porn and related content.
- swarnie 4y agoBefore NSFW content was removed from /r/all a few years back It was much more obvious. Once you scrolled 8-10 pages down your main feed it was almost exclusively porn. Happy for the change, it made the website more unusable then it already was.
- easrng 4y agoif you ever look at the /u/AutoModerator comments it's still very clear
- 4140tm 4y agoA few years back I saw something similar where subreddits were presented like a tree, based on topics (and popularity, I think). Made it easy to drill down to interesting niche subreddits. Haven't been able to find it since.
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- pmoriarty 4y agoIs there a version of this that doesn't require javascript?
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- spookyuser 4y agoI love this and specifically street view, thank you for making it :)
- camtarn 4y agoOh, nice, I didn't even realise street view existed! For anybody else who didn't realise - click on a circle to pop up a little preview of that subreddit, then click 'street view'. You can navigate in street view by clicking to bring up a crosshair, then using WSAD.
- Gareth321 4y ago/r/politics makes a lot of sense.
- xolve 4y agoIts surprising how often I was already visiting a clique of sub-reddits. Even more surprising how much I was missing out on similar sub-reddits. This visualization is really a discovery tool I needed.
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- derbOac 4y agoThere's lots that's interesting to me about this but one is how links provided by subreddits themselves might or might not reflect actual related topics. There's a couple of subs I'm familiar with that have relatively large related subreddits I wasn't aware of before, that aren't linked to or mentioned. Maybe in some cases there's political histories I'm unaware of? The new reddit design is so problematic in so many ways. So many of the "related subreddits" sidebars (all?) are just eliminated in the redesigned site.
- thehonest 4y agoReddit has become a cess poll of anti free speech.
- zem 4y agoimpressed by how well the layout is done, and by the smoothness of zooming and scrolling
- MollyRealized 4y agoJust as a personal opinion, it feels to me like having a 'large subreddits' category is kind of a cheat.