Reddit Was Fun

It's dead to me, but it will survive for now.

The damage is done and irreversible, though, even if they backpedaled the decision.

It would be foolish to think that Reddit the business won’t survive this. Let’s be real, they are going to keep thriving. They’ll likely follow the pattern of facebook or twitter - it doesn’t matter if they are profitable or not, but they are going to stick around regardless.

Now, I think that there is a reasonable argument to be made that Reddit the experience is dying. Many of the large mods and content creators were users of third party apps, and a lot of those folks are going to start drifting away now that Reddit is basically telling them to eat dirt. Reddit is going to slowly shift towards lower effort content, and I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of posts start getting AI generated at some point

Even victims of previous mass exoduses are still around. Take a look at the state of digg or fark now...

Whatever happens won't be over in a week, a month, or even a year really...

If they don't get the bot spam under control it might end up becoming a zombie site. Where less and less relevant content will be drowned out in spam.

There was a post on here, about a community already drowning in spam that the auto-mod couldn't stop. And for some reason they couldn't use the 3-party software they normally used to stop it. (That should still work, unless taken down as a protest to the api changes?)

It'll either die slowly or change into a different user experience entirely. So either way reddit as as most of us knew it will die.

They shall wither on the vine slowly, but assuredly. Digg me?

Yes they are big enough to survive.

But, from this point they will slowly decline and get gradually worse every month until eventually no one interesting posts there. But they will continue to exist in some form for years.

100% it'll survive, The amount of users who left wont make much difference and more people will flock there in time, considering now they have their only their app, more users will will happily pay monthly :/

I hope this is a small turning point in internet history

Reddit’s enshitification has been happening for a long time, and I don’t know if this is the end yet, but I think in a few years when Reddit has died, we will look back at this and say this was the nail in the coffin. I think this will push out the 0.1% of users who generate and moderate the good content, and if/when they go public things will get much much worse. The popular subs will continue to rot and lose the buyers money, so the Reddit admin will be forced to tighten the screws. They’ll force you to have an account to view Reddit, they’ll kill old.reddit, they’ll jam more ads in and kill the 3rd party API completely, even for accessibility apps. My gut says Reddit has like 2 years tops before we consider it “dead” (though will prolly still be up for years)

It’s already dead.

I personally think that they’ve reached critical mass, and will follow a similar pattern to Facebook. Human user growth will slow, and the quality of content will slowly drop off over time. People will slowly stop using Reddit, but it’ll still be around

As much as I would like to see the collapse of Reddit, I don’t think the average user cares. People on lemmy/kbin/etc. care, but that’s a small minority. From over here, it seemed like a lot of subs caved in and backed out of the blackout pretty quick

I could see them modifying how upvotes and total score actually work to make it seem like more people like user’s content. Average people seem to be okay with the slow drip of content interwoven between ads.

At this point tho, I think that I’ll try to not even think about Reddit. I realize it provided lots of entertainment over the past decade, but there are more meaningful things I could do in my own life. I also understand the value that marginalized groups have in these kinds of spaces (people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ people, and people of color) as they may not feel safe IRL, but do like seeking communities like themselves online

But yeah, I’ll move on, touch grass, and try to make a positive impact elsewhere

It probably will just because it is still a very massive repository of data and at its core just a simple hobby forum site funded by ads--basically the second most ancient form of internet content next to a straight up fansite. I think that is what has made so many people so angry about this whole thing--the audacity of Reddit to act like * it* was providing the service (service being ad revenue) rather than its users providing it with avenues for money. Reddit needs to learn that it existed at our pleasure, and that without active users it offers literally nothing.

Just head over to Digg and take a look around. All redditors were on Digg before they messed up the interface and pissed people off. Then almost everyone left digg for Reddit (about 15 years ago I think).

Same thing will happen with Reddit - people will get pissed at the lack of apps to access reddit, the native app sucks and they are going to do away with old.reddit soon enough.

The damage has been done, people like me have discovered the fediverse (and squabbles.io ) - I get my social media fix here now. And for the time there aren't a ton of trolls and bots manipulating post to push them to the top of r/all

I think Reddit has the possibility of going away but it’ll definitely be similar to what has happened with tumblr. It’ll survive but will never be what it once was. Sure the average user can still scroll but the “content creators”/more dedicated users will go elsewhere were.

While I've moved onto lemmy, I do hope it stays alive purely for the vast amount of info already on there. I'm sure as lemmy or other apps grow it'll be easier to find posts on things, but that will take time and till then reddit is probably the most accessible solution

I doubt it, best case we get two places that do almost the same thing (like fb and Twitter)

No, I don't think it will thrive. It's is dead to me.