[snewk]

how can a piece like this not even mention reddit?

admittedly, its not as popular as facebook, but it seems to be a 'newer' paradigm of social network than the big ones.

more unmentioned platforms include tinder and other purpose-driven social networks like quora and meetup.

[gleglegle]

Reddit started 2005. How is it new?

[glibgil]

It should be mentioned in these types of lists. It's not fair to say "Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and Snapchat... and the rest". Reddit is huge

[eduren]

Not just in DAU either. Mind-share wise, it has a huge influence on the wider web and is increasingly the platform for content stealers (the 9gags, buzzfeeds, and facebook pages).

[zyx321]

9gag has been caught time and time again using bots to just rip off whatever was trending on reddit's r/all feed (most obvious when they copy SubRedditSimulator, which is just a Markov Chain recombination of other trending posts).

This has been going on for years.

[Apocryphon]

How about Imgur, then? Which has become a minimalist photo-specific Reddit, of sorts.

[narrowrail]

Is there an open source forum-CMS like phpBB that works like imgur but can be self hosted? Discourse would be the only candidate I can think of and I don't think I could teach my welder buddy to admin it for his welding group (he doesn't like FB).

[Yhippa]

Reddit to me seems more like a forum with a ton of users that I personally have little connection to. I'm absolutely okay with that. I get a lot of value out of it but it just doesn't feel like a social network. You can use things like local subreddits to meet up with people but it doesn't seem like a conventional social network to me.

[eduren]

Came here to say the same thing. It seems like a complete oversight to not even mention reddit, but bring up platforms like Yik Yak.

For my 2 cents, reddit's model is absolutely the road forward for long-term sustainability below the Twitter-Facebook level. Subreddits give the ability for the larger community to grow horizontally in a perpetual, organic way.

Barring any really site-wide admin screw up, reddit will continue to enjoy its position. It's already weathered enough turmoil and scandal that I don't see it ever going the way of Digg.

[Huhty]

It may not mention Reddit, but you can be sure that all the social networks used core ideas from it.

Community voting in general was popularized on Reddit (and Digg before that) and then the big guys started implementing it on their own networks in the late 2000's. I'm talking about all those thumbs up/down functions that eventually showed up on Youtube, Facebook, etc.

I just recently launched a SaaS that is now trying to do the same for traditional bloggers since they've been left behind more than anyone.

[flubert]

>Community voting in general was popularized on Reddit (and Digg before that) and then the big guys started implementing it on their own networks in the late 2000's.

Does anyone have a history of community voting / moderation? Slashdot is really the first example that I can think of, but what, if anything, was before that? And is anyone else doing the multi-dimensional sorting like Slashdot (Informative / Interesting / Funny). That seems like something that might be due to make a come back.

[alpha_squared]

How is Tinder a social network?