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HN readers are 1-2-5 years ahead what happens in the market. you can tell a lot of things that are coming down the pipe if you pay attention on HN. Once the "nerds" give up on reddit it will be an uphill battle to keep the site viable.

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This exactly. There have been a few tech waves where nerd behaviour was the leading indicator by a few years. Search engine move from AltaVista to Google (yes, I'm old). Laptop move to Macbook Pro's. Ignore the nerds at your peril.

lol. you're not that old. remember the days when Intel was kicking AMD's ass and AMD was mostly building a worse Intel clone? Raise your hand if any of the following say anything to you: K5, K6, Duron. If you raised your hand and can go back even further in time tell me at what frequency did a Z80 run. hahahahaah

Haha. I'm so old that the first computer I was introduced to in my first job (it may have been a Data General mainframe; my memory is fuzzy) had a solid copper "ribbon" running along the bottom inside the cabinet, and I was told "Don't drop a screwdriver on that or you'll short out the whole floor". The inside of the cabinet door had what looked like black "flash marks" on it. I also had to recover a program from a paper tape drive in that first year.

You’re so old that your username has a stand alone FPU >:)

you're so old that you use discrete transistors in your CPUs. hahaahahaha

i still have k6-233 with shuttle hot-603 motherboard.

What else do you got in that museum? :)

creative awe64, voodoo 2 and s3 virge....

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I highly doubt it, most revenue comes from non nerds who don't use adblockers or third party apps that don't show ads. I would not be surprised if Reddit revenues increase with these move. It's the same story as Facebook and Instagram, the real money is from the eyeballs of the masses, not of the niches they started out with.

I have a feeling Reddit is mostly nerds though, after this I doubt there is going to be anyone left.

Recently I've been moving to Facebook Groups. Compared to Reddit the groups are much more niche, which is a good thing.

On Reddit there is a general sub about a hobby I'm interested in with 198k subscribers, on Facebook I've found groups with the specific niches of that I'm interested in with 16k - 30k subscribers. The questions are much more specific, and the people there are a lot more knowledgeable. The people on there seem friendlier too.

The lack of search indexing is a major downside though.

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