[Hypx]

I wonder if Reddit has surpassed Twitter, Snapchat, etc, for the title of most popular non-Facebook social network. You rarely see anyone do any kind of comparison of them.

[saternius]

There were a handful of visualizations posted on r/dataisbeautiful a while back that compared the social media giants.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/87q8pn/the...

https://imgur.com/gallery/c4Wzo

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/8yma4e/oc_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/8ahy05/int...

[Hypx]

Looks like Reddit is still growing where the others are shrinking.

[liftbigweights]

Here you go. Reddit was always bigger than snapchat. They are about the same size as twitter.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-net...

Note that FB owns 4 out of the top 6 social media platforms on that list. That's how dominant FB really is.

[Hypx]

Depending on the definition of "active user." In particular, Facebook can be filled with your once-a-month users, who are basically non-active users.

[chrisco255]

Is Reddit really considered a social network and not just a discussion forum?

[beatgammit]

It has:

- user accounts and profiles (users have their own "subreddit") - friends list (and block list) - live chat - personalizable feed - communities

So yeah, it's a social network that looks a lot like a message board, and it has been getting more and more social features.

That's the reason I'm leaving Reddit. I liked how it was a while ago, but the recent changes and the culture just aren't my cup of tea anymore. Discussion is still mostly okay, but there's just far too much noise.

[drenvuk]

What would you consider digg, myspace, slashdot, 4chan, etc? Online watering holes seem like social networks, they just have different forms with similar concepts.