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Do you think reddit will survive this? (self.redditwasfun)

submitted 1 year ago by Tandybaum to c/redditwasfun

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Will they go the way of MySpace or will this truly blow over in a few week?

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[–] Spacebar 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit will die off in stages. Slowly.

First the power users are leaving now. These are the mods and the major content creators (think Minecraft leaving)

Eventually they will piss people off again and the more common content creators will leave.

Then after reddit has worse and worse content, the users who just comment will leave.

After that there will be nothing worthwhile for the lurkers and they will leave too.

Reddit will then be a wasteland.

This will all take quite a while. Even Digg took time to die off.

[–] lennybird 3 points 1 year ago

Sounds about right. There are longtime users I watch or know personally who contributed a lot of content by way of (1) giving / receiving gildings that go to Reddit for server up time, (2) submissions, and (3) moderation (reporting bad behavior). People like PoppinKream, who says they're just waiting for something to get better established before migrating. That won't be long considering these devs have renewed vigor at this opportunity.

It's long-post users like that who separate Reddit from the likes of Facebook or Tiktok. What attracted intelligent discussions in the right subs. Once they leave, it will be just trash content.

Aaron Swartz would be so disappointed in Huffman.