[HN Gopher] Map of Reddit
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Map of Reddit
Author : penneyd
Score : 182 points
Date : 2022-05-12 17:35 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (anvaka.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (anvaka.github.io)
| Aperocky wrote:
| I'm happy and amused that KerbalSpaceProgram, NASA, SpaceX and
| Astronomy are placed under "Travel" and "Finance".
|
| Maybe that's where they should be.
| psyc wrote:
| I recognize this URL because I've been using this:
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| https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/
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| It's a searchable and visual graph of subreddits, mindmap style.
| penneyd wrote:
| That's super cool :)
| bsedlm wrote:
| reddit actively shadowbans comments and all kinds of user created
| content.
|
| It was really surprising to me that they'd be shadowbanning
| comments I would make to reply to other people in already buried
| (controversial) threads.
| Rygian wrote:
| Black screen on Firefox Android.
| RistrettoMike wrote:
| Same on Firefox Windows.
| encrux wrote:
| Also Firefox (97.2.0 (Build #2015863827)) on Android, for me
| it's working.
| SemanticStrengh wrote:
| Hmm so actually internet is not just for porn
| airstrike wrote:
| I feel like these dots are so small, you have to zoom in and out
| constantly to go over the map... would it be possible to now take
| those dots and turn them into blocks that together make up 100%
| of the category they currently belong to? Like counties within a
| state
| SemanticStrengh wrote:
| No categories for science??
| airstrike wrote:
| That whole big Australia-like continent at the bottom is "for
| science"...
| Falell wrote:
| Science has a large cluster in North Programming, and a cluster
| in Eastern Finance. The search is pretty good.
| encrux wrote:
| It appears above Programming when you start zooming in.
| Unintuitive order to put things, but it's there.
| gavinray wrote:
| I learned you can click on the nodes to see relationships FWIW
| [deleted]
| mkeeter wrote:
| As a Cambridge resident, I appreciate /r/Boston and
| /r/CambridgeMA being placed in the "Survival" category!
| Phrodo_00 wrote:
| I wonder how the broader categories were selected. I thought it
| could be the largest/most connected node on each cluster but that
| doesn't seem to be the case.
| torbTurret wrote:
| There's actually a subreddit for this map, but can't find it in
| the map itself (too meta?) : https://www.reddit.com/r/MofR/ Also
| surprised how big overwatch is relative to other games.
|
| Bonus - My roommate works at Amazon and works part time with
| Andrei in some capacity (don't know the full details), but anyway
| he has mentioned multiple times how cool and out of his way
| helpful Andrei is.
|
| I bring this up because when someone of any notoriety is nice I
| think it's really cool. I've met some 'big' tech people who
| definitely weren't!
| bee_rider wrote:
| Jojo* appears to be a country of refugees from the Anime region,
| who've settled in the general gaming region.
|
| *Hopefully before anyone searches it on the map -- it appears
| that r/jojo was taken by some singer/actress. I was referring to
| the anime "Jojo's bizarre adventure," which has a capital of
| "r/shitpostcrusaders."
| coldcode wrote:
| Incredibly interesting chart, or whatever the presentation is
| called.
| ok123456 wrote:
| Low-dimensional embedding.
| flatiron wrote:
| I would go with "map"
| layer8 wrote:
| charted territories
| MonkeyClub wrote:
| Territorial chart?
| Bayart wrote:
| Thanks to /r/quebec, /r/france finds itself in... Canada ?
| penneyd wrote:
| Careful exploring 'Australia'
| tgmatt wrote:
| I thought 'Australia' would be bigger, honestly.
| [deleted]
| thih9 wrote:
| To elaborate, the australia-like island consists of very NSFW
| subreddits.
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| And yes, one should be careful with porn, consuming it in a bad
| way can lead to harmful coping mechanisms or problems with sex;
| seek help if you feel that you're not in control.
| Falell wrote:
| Brazil is apparently a suburb of RPG.
| [deleted]
| InfoSecErik wrote:
| My methodology for discovery/linking subreddits when I did a big
| crawl was to look at the subreddit description and find links to
| other subreddits. I think that was less prone to the issues that
| other commenters are reporting.
| LesZedCB wrote:
| how are the edges determined? i saw relative proximity is user
| interaction overlap, but there are discrete edges too if you
| click on a subreddit.
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| i'm curious because i would like to go another step and see how
| many hops it takes to get from A->B
| pedrosorio wrote:
| The large "Asia" region contains, besides Asian topics (the right
| half of the region):
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| - Language learning communities
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| - Latin America (except Brazil which is in the RPG region because
| of r/TibiaMMO)
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| - Italy, Spain and Portugal (the latter is located between China
| and Japan for mysterious low-dimensionality representation
| reasons)
|
| Other European countries with funny locations:
|
| - Germany in the soccer region (as Gary Lineker once famously
| said "Football is a simple game: 22 men chase a ball for 90
| minutes and, in the end, the Germans always win")
|
| - France in the Canada region (Quebec strong)
|
| - The Netherlands in the EDM region
| jslakro wrote:
| Just, awesome. Recently I was trying to figure out how could
| explore in a more "natural" way new communities on reddit, well
| done
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Original Show HN from author a year ago:
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26624879
| arsome wrote:
| Why does rule 34 and most of the furry porn not fall onto porn
| island?
| WaffleIronMaker wrote:
| I guess the furries don't feel the need to create alt accounts
| for their porn
| pvarangot wrote:
| Same reason why there's a "gay island" I guess?
| johnnyanmac wrote:
| yeah, makes sense since so much anime content (or at least, a
| signifigant proportion more compared to western animation)
| already includes pretty explicit content. The line between
| something like Kill La Kill and kill la kill R34 is already
| razor thin.
|
| part of it is also community. From a quick glance I recognize
| that r/hentai is in anime island instead of R34. But the
| moderation of r/hentai has (or used to have) many moderators
| from other anime subs, and some regular posters will
| alternate between r/hentai, r/manga, or r/animemes. That can
| play a part in which communities decide to form and comingle.
| tmp_anon_22 wrote:
| I feel like moderators should receive a weighted vote when
| identifying connections between subreddits. Two subs with
| identical moderator lists must be pretty similar right?
| jedberg wrote:
| We built a map like this at reddit a long time ago. The
| methodology was pretty straightforward -- we looked at subreddits
| that had the same links submitted and upvoted. We used the map to
| power the "similar subreddits" feature. Unfortunately it suffered
| from a lot of spam and things like getting linked to very NSFW
| subreddits, and we didn't have the manpower to fix it or curate
| it, so the feature died.
| themanmaran wrote:
| > I processed 176,178,986 unique comments that redditors left in
| years 2020 - 2021 and computed Jaccard Similarity between
| subreddits.
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| > Each dot on the map is subreddit. Two dots within the same
| cluster are usually close to each other if multiple users
| frequently leave comments on both subreddits.
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| More detail from the repo: https://github.com/anvaka/map-of-
| reddit
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