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Reddit's getting 200 million unique views every single month. That's approaching youtube/facebook levels of traffic.

It's really not. Facebook was getting nearly 1.4 billion uniques/month in December 2014[1]. Youtube passed 1 billion uniques/month in 2013[2] and growth (in terms of hours of videos watched anyway) has actually accelerated since then.

you don't hear people claiming that facebook or youtube has a problem with "racism and sexism". Why is that the case, even though it does have a problem with those things? Because people expect it there due the sheer size of those sites

Facebook gets in trouble because they take down groups supporting breastfeeding moms. Reddit resisted taking a group called Coontown. It's a pretty significant difference.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Facebook_growth

[2] http://www.cnbc.com/id/100575883

[mahranch]

> It's really not.

I'm going to have to disagree. My point wasn't that reddit is becoming facebook or youtube, but that it is in the same ballpark as far as traffic goes. And if you're at a quarter billion unique hits every month, you are playing with the big boys. The point was one of relativity - reddit is a huge global website and not some small community.

Since it is so huge, we shouldn't treat it as some small BBS. Just because reddit doesn't have the exact same traffic as youtube doesn't invalidate my point.