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[andrewflnr]

How do you think of Reddit in that framework? Reddit itself is explicitly a tool for creating, basically, community sites. How closely does it fit with your vision of a tool for crafting social networks? When do you predict it will fail?

[bsamuels → andrewflnr]

Facebook revolves around making people interesting and providing people-based content to consume.

Reddit revolves around people finding interesting content and providing it to others to be consumed with some commentary on the side.

I'm not sure how they're comparable. Sure, reddit has a community aspect, but it's really just a side dish compared to the content (links).

[threeseed → bsamuels]

This simply isn't true.

Many of the subreddits (e.g. the ones dedicated to cities or schools) are far more about the community than the content.

[_7h4m → bsamuels]

> Sure, reddit has a community aspect, but it's really just a side dish compared to the content (links).

Maybe if you stick to the default subreddits that are composed entirely of memes.

The main reason that I use Reddit is for the discussion; I highly, highly doubt that you're going to find /r/askscience-calibre conversations on Facebook.

[magic_haze → bsamuels]

OTOH, subreddits like IAMA, AskScience and ELI5 are fairly significant parts of reddit. In fact, most of the top items in /all are memes that refer back to things that happen within Reddit, so I'm not sure the links to external websites are nearly as important as the community these days.