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TrueRedditDrama vs DepthHub

Zarkonnen — Tue, 14 May 2013 02:35:16 -0800

A zoomable, searchable map of subreddits and how they're connected by crossposting.

Everything is fleeting

Wordshore — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 04:27:46 -0800

"It feels strange to be active and highly visible on the Web for 15 years but it was only when I joined Facebook that someone from elementary school or high school ever contacted me." In which on Ev Williams's platform, Mr Haughey compares his experiences of Facebook and Twitter. Other recent comparisons of Facebook and Twitter by Forbes, Forbes again, the New York Times, Social Times and Tweetsmarter.

If you don't like memes, you're gonna have a bad time.

zombieflanders — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:40:47 -0800

A Mess of Memes (SLYT, slightly NSFW) [previously on the Blue]

S03E23: Comparative Hoaxology

Sebmojo — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:36:22 -0800

A woman opens an old steamer trunk and discovers tantalizing clues that a long-dead relative may actually have been a serial killer, stalking the streets of New York in the closing years of the nineteenth century. A beer enthusiast is presented by his neighbor with the original recipe for Brown's Ale, salvaged decades before from the wreckage of the old brewery--the very building where the Star-Spangled Banner was sewn in 1813. These stories have two things in common. They are tailor-made for viral success on the internet. And they are all lies.

Goodbye and good riddance

Artw — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:50:46 -0800

At reddit we care deeply about not imposing ours or anyone elses’ opinions on how people use the reddit platform. We are adamant about not limiting the ability to use the reddit platform even when we do not ourselves agree with or condone a specific use. We have very few rules here on reddit; no spamming, no cheating, no personal info, nothing illegal, and no interfering the site's functions. Today we are adding another rule: No suggestive or sexual content featuring minors. - After much complaint, Reddit gets rid of /r/jailbait and selected subreddits with similar content.

FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU-

Rhaomi — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:07:35 -0800

Social news site Reddit recently held their "Best of Reddit 2010" awards honoring key players in the site over the last year, including the progenitor of the Rally to Restore Sanity, the clever drive-by cartoonist Sure_Ill_Draw_That, unofficial image host Imgur, and feel-good story of the year "Today you, tomorrow me." But perhaps most interesting was the winner for Best Big Community: FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU! Originally inspired by 4chan's popular Rage Guy meme, F7U12 (for short) is a clearinghouse for user-made web comics, slice-of-life affairs that tell a story or share a common frustration using a small collection of crudely drawn yet highly evocative facial expressions. Several have become small memes in their own right -- the wily Trolldad, the doormat Okay, the prideful Fuck Yea, the melodramatic Gasp. And one comic, inspired by the warped text randomly generated by reCAPTCHAs (previously), has given us Lord Inglip -- god of a dark religion now rivaling FSM whose cryptic commands marshal loyal armies of gropagas, falcows, Sellicks, and... canary into exploits both monstrous and inconvenient (timeline, wiki). Obey him -- or else! More fun with F7U12: rage face origins, rage faces in real life, Twitter feed, search comics, create your own (alternate).

Reddit founders depart

khafra — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:14:46 -0800

Reddit founders Kn0thing and Spez have left the building. The social media juggernaut's founders Alexis (Kn0thing) and Steve (Spez) have declined to renew their contracts, prompting much discussion and speculation on reddit itself, and the incubator that helped it start up, Ycombinator.

Beyond the Front Page of Reddit

thisperon — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:48:34 -0800

Apologies in advance for yet another reddit link, but I thought these were worthy enough to post for the uninitiated. Reddit, a link aggregator site, is often dismissed as another digg, 4chan, or fark, perhaps justifiably so. Users, however, know there's some excellent subreddits (among the thousands) lurking beneath the main page... The "I am a" subreddit. (Based on the statement: "I am a ____, ask me anything.") No holds barred self-descriptions of all kinds of professions, religions, and circumstances little understood by popular American culture, including: a sikh, someone who lived in North Korea as a child, and a reddit cofounder. The Today I Learned subreddit. Want to procrastinate some more? Check out the top scorers. The Ask Reddit subreddit. Like Askmetafilter without the moderation and spell check. The wikipedia subreddit, linking to the more unusual and interesting wikipedia entries. And for metafilter diehards, the ask metafilter subreddit. (Just posting a link to a link that links to this site is making me feel spacey.)