Reddit: The Little Social Media Engine That Could
Geocities have gone the way of dial up modems. Slashdot and digg have seen various falters, stumbles and dizzying highs. And reddit just keeps chugging along, doing what it always has done.
Since being founded in 2005 reddit has been growing steadily, according to a new study from software engineer and Reddit user Max Woolf (u/minimaxir). The study, which analyzed 41 million posts over a the course of two years, indicates that Reddit may be the social media version of The Little Engine That Could, making slow but steadily progress.
Daily Dot contributor Fernando Alfonso III notes that Reddit is one of the last bastions of both classic internet forum layout and internet forum attitude where people are still free to use pseudonyms.
It’s getting harder to stay anonymous online, as more social media websites shackle themselves to your real life details.
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