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Subreddits where social and messaging apps get shared

Chat platforms, dating apps, social networks, creator tools. These rooms compare the places people talk, and they link while they do it.

  • r/discordalternativesreddit.com/r/discordalternativesClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    44· very high
    Social & Communication
    177of 224
    Links arrive as
    Both· 40% posts
    Shared by
    73accounts
  • r/dating_appsreddit.com/r/dating_appsClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    42· high
    Social & Communication
    61of 77
    Links arrive as
    Mostly posts· 79%
    Shared by
    47accounts
  • r/redditalternativesreddit.com/r/redditalternativesClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    40· high
    Social & Communication
    182of 221
    Links arrive as
    Both· 43% posts
    Shared by
    68accounts
  • r/fediversereddit.com/r/fediverseClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    39· high
    Social & Communication
    73of 94
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    Both· 39% posts
    Shared by
    47accounts
  • r/onlinedatingappsreddit.com/r/onlinedatingappsClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    35· high
    Social & Communication
    84of 112
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    Mostly posts· 63%
    Shared by
    56accounts
  • r/makenewfriendsherereddit.com/r/makenewfriendshereClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    33· high
    Social & Communication
    243of 700
    Links arrive as
    Mostly posts· 63%
    Shared by
    113accounts
  • r/onlinedatingreviewsreddit.com/r/onlinedatingreviewsClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    32· medium
    Social & Communication
    629of 638
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    Mostly comments· 9% posts
    Shared by
    33accounts
  • r/bannedfromdiscordreddit.com/r/bannedfromdiscordClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    31· medium
    Social & Communication
    52of 81
    Links arrive as
    Both· 19% posts
    Shared by
    37accounts
  • r/blueskysocialreddit.com/r/blueskysocialClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    29· medium
    Social & Communication
    555of 636
    Links arrive as
    Both· 37% posts
    Shared by
    181accounts
  • r/needafriendreddit.com/r/needafriendClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    28· medium
    Social & Communication
    114of 197
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    Mostly posts· 53%
    Shared by
    38accounts
  • r/ome_tvreddit.com/r/ome_tvClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    26· medium
    Social & Communication
    58of 64
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    Mostly posts· 66%
    Shared by
    52accounts
  • r/mastodonreddit.com/r/mastodonClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    26· medium
    Social & Communication
    50of 60
    Links arrive as
    Both· 43% posts
    Shared by
    35accounts
  • r/oldinternetreddit.com/r/oldinternetClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    24· low
    Social & Communication
    48of 151
    Links arrive as
    Both· 29% posts
    Shared by
    35accounts
  • r/dating_advicereddit.com/r/dating_adviceClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    23· low
    Social & Communication
    117of 531
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    Mostly comments· 9% posts
    Shared by
    91accounts
  • r/discordsucksreddit.com/r/discordsucksClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    22· low
    Social & Communication
    30of 41
    Links arrive as
    Both· 23% posts
    Shared by
    19accounts
  • r/datingtipsreddit.com/r/datingtipsClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    22· low
    Social & Communication
    21of 33
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    Mostly posts· 68%
    Shared by
    15accounts
  • r/datingoverfortyreddit.com/r/datingoverfortyClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    21· low
    Social & Communication
    41of 111
    Links arrive as
    Mostly comments· 5% posts
    Shared by
    31accounts
  • r/onlyflansreddit.com/r/onlyflansClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    21· low
    Social & Communication
    94of 164
    Links arrive as
    Mostly posts· 97%
    Shared by
    79accounts
  • r/datingoverfiftyreddit.com/r/datingoverfiftyClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    21· low
    Social & Communication
    34of 80
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    Mostly comments· 7% posts
    Shared by
    28accounts
  • r/gaybrosreddit.com/r/gaybrosClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    21· low
    Social & Communication
    41of 81
    Links arrive as
    Both· 36% posts
    Shared by
    29accounts
  • r/nostrreddit.com/r/nostrClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    20· low
    Social & Communication
    65of 138
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    Mostly posts· 62%
    Shared by
    18accounts
  • r/socialmediareddit.com/r/socialmediaClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    20· low
    Social & Communication
    87of 359
    Links arrive as
    Both· 14% posts
    Shared by
    50accounts
  • r/indiewebreddit.com/r/indiewebClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    19· low
    Social & Communication
    37of 160
    Links arrive as
    Mostly posts· 54%
    Shared by
    27accounts
  • r/askgaybrosreddit.com/r/askgaybrosClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    19· low
    Social & Communication
    292of 718
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    Mostly comments· 9% posts
    Shared by
    162accounts
  • r/exposinginstagramlifereddit.com/r/exposinginstagramlifeClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    19· low
    Social & Communication
    32of 52
    Links arrive as
    Mostly posts· 95%
    Shared by
    31accounts
  • r/ircreddit.com/r/ircClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    19· low
    Social & Communication
    40of 62
    Links arrive as
    Both· 36% posts
    Shared by
    25accounts
  • r/bumblereddit.com/r/bumbleClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    19· low
    Social & Communication
    84of 213
    Links arrive as
    Mostly comments· 6% posts
    Shared by
    66accounts
  • r/signalreddit.com/r/signalClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    19· low
    Social & Communication
    138of 178
    Links arrive as
    Both· 16% posts
    Shared by
    67accounts
  • r/textfriendsreddit.com/r/textfriendsClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    18· low
    Social & Communication
    56of 64
    Links arrive as
    Both· 31% posts
    Shared by
    35accounts
  • r/datingadviceformenreddit.com/r/datingadviceformenClick to see this subreddit in detail
    Topic focus
    18· low
    Social & Communication
    20of 75
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    Mostly comments· 3% posts
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    19accounts

How to read this list of Social & Communication subreddits

This category is dominated by migration. The rooms at the top are people leaving one platform and comparing where to go, and that comparison is nothing but product links. It makes the category easy to rank and easy to misread: a room can be at the top for three months because a single platform changed its terms, then drift down when the argument ends.

Dating and friendship rooms are the second block, and they behave differently. The product talk is steady rather than spiky, driven by the same question asked by new people every week. If you build in that space, those rooms are a durable source of the exact objections your landing page has to answer.

It is also the category where the room and the product are most often the same thing. People discuss a platform inside a community hosted on another platform, which means a lot of what looks like product talk is really users of a service asking each other for help. Useful to read, harder to market into.

See the products, not just the rooms

The rooms are free. Which products the radar found inside each one is the paid part of PulsePeek, and it is the difference between a room that fits your product and a room that already has one.

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Questions, answered

Questions about Social & Communication communities

Because comparing platforms is their entire purpose, so nearly every product they link belongs to this category. Focus measures that concentration. It also means those rooms are more volatile than most, since a migration wave ends and the room quiets down.

The comparison rooms often are, because a new option is on topic by definition. The support rooms for an existing platform usually are not, since a competitor showing up reads as poaching. The arrival column is the fastest way to tell them apart before you write anything.

Yes, when the discussion links to the product. Rooms about running a community link to hosting, moderation and forum tools regularly, and those links are what put the room on this list.

Because the products linked in it are dating apps, and that is what we classify. We categorise the product, never the room. A room ends up here when a large share of the products people link inside it belong to this category, whatever the room is nominally about.