[HN Gopher] Map of Reddit
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Map of Reddit
Author : penneyd
Score : 647 points
Date : 2022-05-12 17:35 UTC (1 days ago)
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| 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.
| KSPAtlas wrote:
| You can learn about managing finances in KSP Career mode I
| guess...
| Aperocky wrote:
| Coincidentally by building fully automated tourist ships...
| proctrap wrote:
| Uhm, so all of the german subs are now in soccer ?!
| psyc wrote:
| I recognize this URL because I've been using this:
|
| https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/
|
| It's a searchable and visual graph of subreddits, mindmap style.
| penneyd wrote:
| That's super cool :)
| cardosof wrote:
| Could we say that this is a proxy for the internet as a whole?
| spookyuser wrote:
| I love this and specifically street view, thank you for making it
| :)
| camtarn wrote:
| Oh, nice, I didn't even realise street view existed!
|
| For anybody else who didn't realise - click on a circle to pop
| up a little preview of that subreddit, then click 'street
| view'. You can navigate in street view by clicking to bring up
| a crosshair, then using WSAD.
| xhrpost wrote:
| I don't know why but my brain interpreted this as "Map of GitHub"
| and I was rather surprised that there was a GitHub repository for
| just GIFs and I hadn't known about it.
| jayd16 wrote:
| How are the larger sections named? Hacking isn't in the hacking
| section.
| [deleted]
| derbOac wrote:
| The category names are often a little off. "Running" is more
| like endurance/cardio athletics, for example.
|
| Th methodology is cutting off edges that cross between
| categories too, which in some cases I think is giving a
| distorted idea of how the subreddits are organized.
| 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.
| xolve wrote:
| Works for me on Firefox Nightly, Android and desktop versions.
| 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
| fartcannon wrote:
| Linux under programming next to science and graphic design.
|
| Microsoft and Windows 10 in netsec(!?) along with Facebook.
|
| Google and Apple occupying a sea of banal self referential subs
| and consumption. Amazon is there, too just super small.
|
| Very interesting.
| shakna wrote:
| Considering how terrible Windows' netsec has been historically,
| that's entirely unsurprising. When you want to scream for help
| into the void, you might hit up both those places at once.
| fartcannon wrote:
| I guess that applies to Linux and graphic design as well!
| gbh444g wrote:
| Great map. I suggest to paint active subreddits as bright circles
| and stale ones as dim circles, so the map would look like Europe
| viewed from satellite at night.
| 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
| themodelplumber wrote:
| That's a nice idea. I do wonder if it could create some border
| problems, where there is a need to link to some non-neighbor
| states, but not through other states that would otherwise be
| linked/shared neighbors.
|
| (I guess unless you wanted to render little overflights by
| airplanes or something)
| SemanticStrengh wrote:
| No categories for science??
| airstrike wrote:
| That whole big Australia-like continent at the bottom is "for
| science"...
| SemanticStrengh wrote:
| it is for senses*
| 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
| password4321 wrote:
| Curious how the data was collected (and when), some subreddits
| shown are now banned.
| [deleted]
| izhak wrote:
| How to zoom out?.. (I've finally found that double click will
| zoom in)
| DeathArrow wrote:
| Where is porn? I've certainly seen a lot of it on Reddit.
| deTalleyrand wrote:
| Go south, young man
| mkeeter wrote:
| As a Cambridge resident, I appreciate /r/Boston and
| /r/CambridgeMA being placed in the "Survival" category!
| willis936 wrote:
| Baltimore is as well, which is understandable. I'm surprised
| it's so far from idiotsInCars.
| 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."
| derbOac wrote:
| There's lots that's interesting to me about this but one is how
| links provided by subreddits themselves might or might not
| reflect actual related topics. There's a couple of subs I'm
| familiar with that have relatively large related subreddits I
| wasn't aware of before, that aren't linked to or mentioned. Maybe
| in some cases there's political histories I'm unaware of?
|
| The new reddit design is so problematic in so many ways. So many
| of the "related subreddits" sidebars (all?) are just eliminated
| in the redesigned site.
| 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?
| jhoechtl wrote:
| I had no idea that reddit consists to such a large extend of porn
| and related content.
| swarnie wrote:
| Before NSFW content was removed from /r/all a few years back It
| was much more obvious. Once you scrolled 8-10 pages down your
| main feed it was almost exclusively porn.
|
| Happy for the change, it made the website more unusable then it
| already was.
| easrng wrote:
| if you ever look at the /u/AutoModerator comments it's still
| very clear
| jonathanlb wrote:
| Surprised to not see /r/superstonk in the map
| thehonest wrote:
| Reddit has become a cess poll of anti free speech.
| Bayart wrote:
| Thanks to /r/quebec, /r/france finds itself in... Canada ?
| willis936 wrote:
| Halifax is in Nova Scotia, which is in Canada, which is on
| Earth, which is in Canada.
|
| https://youtu.be/oz88kJSdT6Y
| andkenneth wrote:
| khanan wrote:
| Should be a laaaarge overlapping country reading "gonewild"... :)
| pmoriarty wrote:
| Is there a version of this that doesn't require javascript?
| nitwit005 wrote:
| Who knew that science and teaching were a subset of programming?
|
| Feels like something fundamental is wrong with the methodology.
| It appears they gave up on the large subreddits, perhaps because
| they were linked to everything.
| [deleted]
| penneyd wrote:
| Careful exploring 'Australia'
| tgmatt wrote:
| I thought 'Australia' would be bigger, honestly.
| [deleted]
| henriquecm8 wrote:
| Why rule34 is on the main island instead of in "Australia"?
| thih9 wrote:
| To elaborate, the australia-like island consists of very NSFW
| subreddits.
|
| 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.
| [deleted]
| User23 wrote:
| There is no good way to "consume" porn. At best it's
| pathetic, and it can be a whole lot worse, causing actual
| brain damage by rewiring reward circuits. It's similar to
| alcohol in that respect: there is no safe dose.
|
| I don't say this to upset anyone, but anyone who is upset
| will benefit greatly from curbing the tendency toward denial
| and honestly asking "Am I an addict?"
| nhinck2 wrote:
| All of this is of course backed by sound science right?
| thih9 wrote:
| > At best it's pathetic
|
| This seems a personal opinion and unhelpful. Others might
| say avoiding porn is pathetic; I think this topic should be
| discussed without name calling.
|
| I like the comparison to alcohol. I don't drink but I
| wouldn't shame those who do (unless they have a compulsion
| or they drink to avoid problems).
| Falell wrote:
| Brazil is apparently a suburb of RPG.
| akomtu wrote:
| New Zealand is great too.
| [deleted]
| devmunchies wrote:
| Browsing this as a map was entertaining, and I don't even use
| Reddit. Maybe this is a good application of the "metaverse".
| Spacial association between communities.
| 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.
| Gareth321 wrote:
| /r/politics makes a lot of sense.
| xolve wrote:
| Its surprising how often I was already visiting a clique of sub-
| reddits. Even more surprising how much I was missing out on
| similar sub-reddits. This visualization is really a discovery
| tool I needed.
| zouhair wrote:
| Starcraft 2 in RPG
| KSPAtlas wrote:
| Apparently hackernews is in netsec, huh.
| 4140tm wrote:
| A few years back I saw something similar where subreddits were
| presented like a tree, based on topics (and popularity, I think).
| Made it easy to drill down to interesting niche subreddits.
|
| Haven't been able to find it since.
| [deleted]
| 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.
|
| 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):
|
| - Language learning communities
|
| - Latin America (except Brazil which is in the RPG region because
| of r/TibiaMMO)
|
| - 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
| ZeWaka wrote:
| Hungary is with the strategy games.
| gilbertc wrote:
| And HongKong is under Wtf.. makes sense I guess.
| jsmith45 wrote:
| Cats contains the plant related reddits, and is tied to them
| via r/CatsAndPlants (fair enough). It visibly looks like plants
| are also connected via r/michaelbaygifs, but that is only
| because of really odd placement for r/UnexpectedThugLife.
|
| It would be nice if the shown links were not restricted to a
| single "country", as I bet r/dogsandplants (which is part of
| Cats) is tied to a bunch of dog reddits, but those are not
| shown.
| Barrin92 wrote:
| >Portugal (the latter is located between China and Japan for
| mysterious low-dimensionality representation reasons)
|
| could that have a real world reason given that Macau used to be
| a Portuguese colony as well as Brazil hosting the largest
| Japanese diaspora population in the world?
| pedrosorio wrote:
| Seems to be pure chance. r/brasil and others are in a very
| different place in the graph, and none of the subreddits
| related to r/portugal are connected to any of the
| Japanese/Chinese subreddits in the graph.
| thematrixturtle wrote:
| Unlikely, because virtually nobody in Macau speaks Portuguese
| anymore, and Reddit is not well known in Japan. Various
| Japan-related subreddits are very popular, but they're
| populated by English speakers living in Japan, travelling to
| Japan, etc.
| 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
| Kostchei wrote:
| this the metaverse, I mean, a metaverse, and maybe a VR 3d
| equivalent of this is the way to go? Curated and weighted as the
| user wants, not how the advertisers want...
|
| I feel like in a social environment, Just because you don't find
| everything you want immediately is a feature, not a bug, like
| getting off in a part of town you don't know and talking to a
| person you didn't expect. In hindsight, "11 year old explore the
| city me" never left - still fun 30+ years later
| willis936 wrote:
| Everyone here:
|
| https://youtu.be/URVS4H7vrdU
| zem wrote:
| impressed by how well the layout is done, and by the smoothness
| of zooming and scrolling
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Original Show HN from author a year ago:
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26624879
| UncleOxidant wrote:
| "Large Subreddits" seems kind of lazy.
| ranger207 wrote:
| I don't think so. The big subs have their own culture that's
| not as shared with the smaller subs. It's part of the reason
| why (and corollary to) subs get worse when they get larger
| salmonellaeater wrote:
| Can this map be better understood as groupings of _users_? It
| seems that a lot of the categories that are polyphyletic so to
| speak - programming grouped with science, Italy and Spain between
| China and Japan - make sense if you just think of them as
| overlapping groups of users.
|
| More specifically, the groupings would be user accounts (this
| distinction is important for understanding Porn Island).
| penneyd wrote:
| From the info section - "Two dots within the same cluster are
| usually close to each other if multiple users frequently leave
| comments on both subreddits."
| dpedu wrote:
| The bulk of the groups are labeled, but the sections of "NSFW
| Island", I'll call it, aren't. Is there an explanation of the
| grouping? Some of the groups make sense (celebs, indian-themed)
| but I can't make heads or tails of the others.
| jsmith45 wrote:
| The country names for "Australia" are (in no particular order,
| with lists of some of the larger circles, especially ones that
| suggest other clusters bundled into the country)
|
| - WorldPacks (WorldPacks, NSFWPublic, DiscordNudes as some of
| the larger ones)
|
| - Ebony (Ebony, GoneWildColor, OnlyFans101, TeenBeauties)
|
| - Sommer Ray (SommerRay, MegNutt, CardiB)
|
| - gonewild (gonewild, realgirls, OnOff, AsiansGoneWild)
|
| - NSFW (NSFW, Celebs, Porn, Boobies)
|
| - Blowjob (Blowjob, painal, creampies, PornVids)
|
| - NSFW Glamour (abelladanger, Miakhalifa, RileyReid,
| PornStarHQ)
|
| - Perky (Perky, NSFWBox, CamOrgasm, ForgotToPullOut)
|
| - Glamour (KatyPerry, EmmaWatson, ArianaGrande)
|
| - Onmww (Onmww, obsf, gilf, ErinAshford)
|
| - grool (Grool, Anal, squirting, simps)
|
| - milf (milf, Cuckold, Amateurs, GWCouples)
|
| - GoneWildPlus (GoneWildPlus, BBWGW, PerkyChubby)
|
| - feet (feet, sexsells, bdsm, gonewildaudio)
|
| - NSFW India (IndianGoneWild, RepressedGoneWild, ArabPorn)
|
| - texas nsfw (TexansGoneWild, TexasSwingers,
| TexasCuckoldCommunity)
|
| The names are mostly just the names of one of the larger or
| more centrally connected subreddits in the country, and what
| some of them include seems pretty arbitrary.
|
| And you can probably find "New Zealand"'s "Gay" and "Traps"
| countries pretty easily, and have no trouble telling them
| apart.
| jghn wrote:
| I've had another one of their sites [1] open in a tab for several
| months now. Whenever I find a new to me subreddit I find
| interesting I look it up on this site to see what else is in the
| vicinity topic wise.
|
| [1] https://anvaka.github.io/sayit
| sitkack wrote:
| Sweet, I just found the https://old.reddit.com/r/bevy subreddit
| for the Rust based game engine.
| [deleted]
| 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?
| hombre_fatal wrote:
| That doesn't make sense when you realize mods uphold
| arbitrary politics of a sub, often even more than they
| are just janitors.
| 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.
| samstave wrote:
| How about amking an icon next to every single post which is a
| link to summary page of every post of that URL, ever.
|
| I've been a reddit user for 15 years.
|
| I have a fairly good memory. So many reposts from even years
| ago.
|
| Fine, if nobody had seen such post prior, but an indicator of
| just how frequently a reposted URL is useful, though
| antithetical to $model.
| jedberg wrote:
| If you're on old reddit, you can click the "Other
| Discussions" button to see every time the URL has been
| submitted. You can also just go to
| reddit.com/duplicates/$linkID
|
| Or you can go to reddit.com/$URL (<- They hate it when I tell
| people this because it's a feature that I wrote 15 years ago
| as a URL rewrite in the load balancer that they have to
| maintain as they change load balancers)
|
| Fun fact: That feature exists because I made reddit's co-
| founder Steve write it for me in exchange for a place to
| sleep.
| ranger207 wrote:
| Thanks for that feature, I love using it to see discussion
| of the same content in different communities. It really
| helps make reddit feel like the front page of the internet,
| with multiple communities commenting on what's going on
| every day. If there was one thing I wish was improved about
| it it would be canonicalization, so that m.wikipedia.com
| and wikipedia.com articles are connected, or youtube.com
| and youtu.be links
| samstave wrote:
| Super familiar, and thank you for that...
|
| Sorry that I can't stand new reddit.
|
| I think that there should be a visual indicator maybe from
| green - yellow - red background or something based on the
| frequency of reposts etc...
|
| I consume reddit for new stuff...
|
| After being a user for literally 15 years. I am ready to
| delete my account.
| jimbob45 wrote:
| Shame that Musk didn't opt to buy Reddit instead. The only tech
| company more mismanaged than Twitter over the last decade was
| Reddit. Not to mention their blatant bias and abuse of power.
| [deleted]
| wrayjustin wrote:
| Sad to hear this wasn't able to make it into GA.
|
| But the link-relationship methodology is interesting (similar
| to something like PageRank through backlinks).
|
| But it's not the methodology I'd have initially gravitated
| towards.
|
| My first instinct would be relations based on subscription
| overlap. This seems like it should group commonalities based on
| the user interests. This may also have alleviated some of the
| SPAM issues.
|
| Though it would have been interesting to see both approaches
| merged together.
| jedberg wrote:
| We may have tried other methodologies as well, I honestly
| don't remember. I feel like subscription overlap was
| something we at least talked about, but maybe not.
| ehsankia wrote:
| That would not produce anything close to this. Is the goal to
| find similar subreddits, or find other non-similar subreddits
| the person may like? The map by OP is grouped by categories,
| which is quite a bit different than just interest. Even for
| recommendation system, I don't think it quite works here due
| to how extremely wide reddit is. Something like Steam or
| Spotify can use it, but reddit has everything from porn to
| cities to games. Just because I love Portal and I'm from
| Vancouver doesn't mean someone else who likes Portal will
| care about Vancouver, or vice versa.
| cmeacham98 wrote:
| Yes, but the majority of /r/Steam users are not subscribed
| to /r/Vancouver (or whatever the Vancouver subreddit is).
| I'd wager a guess there is a much more significant overlap
| with related subreddits such as /r/pcgaming.
| littlestymaar wrote:
| > That would not produce anything close to this
|
| Well, have you read the methodology used by this map?
|
| > Each dot is a subreddit. Two dots within the same cluster
| are usually close to each other if multiple users
| frequently leave comments on both subreddits.
|
| So it's not exactly about subscribers, but it's the same
| idea, which proves your refutation wrong.
| andai wrote:
| I think this is how Last.fm works (and it works quite
| well!)
|
| The weirdness in disparate interests is smoothed out by
| having a large sample size.
|
| I'm trying to find details of the algorithm. In the
| meantime, here's an interview with the inventor of
| AudioScrobbler, which merged with Last.fm to provide its
| recommendations system:
| https://www.wired.com/2012/11/richard-jones-scrobbling
| Foomf wrote:
| GA?
| jacobmischka wrote:
| My guess is general audience or general availability.
| hammock wrote:
| Doesn't include quarantined subreddits, many of which are very
| active
| themanmaran wrote:
| > I processed 176,178,986 unique comments that redditors left in
| years 2020 - 2021 and computed Jaccard Similarity between
| subreddits.
|
| > 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.
|
| More detail from the repo: https://github.com/anvaka/map-of-
| reddit
| minimaxir wrote:
| Back in 2016 I did a similar approach to calculate related users:
| one using graph similarity (https://minimaxir.com/2016/05/reddit-
| graph/ , albeit the embeds broke) and another using jaccard
| similarity (like this viz) with a different approach to
| visualization which IMO turned out easier to interpret than a
| graph-based approach (https://minimaxir.com/2016/06/reddit-
| related-subreddits/ )
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