Asklemmy @lemmy.ml Ahri Boy @lemmy.ml 2y ago

Do you think that Reddit will go the same way Digg did?

Ever since Elon bought Twitter, it caused mass exodus to Fediverse and companies have launched their own Mastodon instances. I am an ex-redditor and I joined Lemmy recently. Do you think Reddit will go the same way Digg did?

PS: I was permanently suspended from Reddit for unspecified harassment.

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Currently, no. Digg collapsed because the format of the site was changed in extreme and unpopular ways. Elon is massively mismanaging Twitter while also learning that moderation is hard. Reddit of course has its own balancing act, but it shows no signs of complete collapse like with previous sites.
- r/banned was banned by Reddit Admin team for Mod Code of Conduct violation. The state of Reddit is declining due to unfair subreddit mod actions.
  
  From what I can gather, there were repeated problems with brigading. It's also worth noting that Lemmy uses much the same structure as Reddit, so the complaints from r/banned about "supermods" apply just as much here.
Or the same way delicio.us did? That's how the internet works
- Yeah, trends come and go. Facebook also already lost more than half of their peak userbase IIRC.
  
  Any source for that? Last time I read about it their user-base was still growing, albeit mostly outside of Europe / US which is not popular with their advertisement customers.
I'm honestly just surprised that people are putting up with their horrible redesigned webclient and app. I use Reddit a lot less than I used to specifically because of Lemmy, pretty much only for more niche tech/programming stuff not yet found on Lemmy, but when I do it's strictly old.reddit.com and Slide for Reddit.

Being able to only see two or three comments deep in a forum specifically designed around nested comments is unacceptable.
Yes, when forum developers and owners take full advantage of ActivityPub.

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