Reddit is in danger of a death spiral
Reddit is in danger of a death spiral
Can Reddit survive as its volunteer workforce close down subreddits and walk away from the site in protest at the management's new policies?
In danger? I'd say the content falloff has been in the midst of the spiral for months.
I was wondering if that was just my imagination. The stupid thing about all of this is it wouldn't have taken much to have avoided the whole debacle completely. Now spez has lost user's trust in the platform that took years to establish. That's not coming back any time soon.
It feels like one of those magic times users revolted (I.e. Digg), but then I look at Mastodon and Twitter and am less hopeful.
The optimistic outlook on it is that unlike Twitter the quality of content on Reddit relies on moderators who have no official capacity from the site. Twitter is moderated by people who are paid at Twitter, so moderators leaving the sub (and taking the curation the users enjoyed with them) is much more impactful.
Twitter is about people, Reddit is about content.
Do you remember any nicknames or any famous Reddit users? I remember the story about the poop knife but not the nickname. I remember on lemmy the 3 day no poop challenge but not the nickname.
I can't remember how it was circa 2010, but it feels like it's harder to "kill" social media sites now.
Yeah, they metastasized.
I really don't miss Reddit at all.
Reddit: No, i'm not in danger, I'm the danger.
Crazy that they call out Beehaw by name
50 million of users won't dissappear in a day or two. That said, I really enjoy this Fediverse and in time this comunity have the potential to impose himself as the " true open " alternative to Reddit, a bit like Linux with Windows back then.