For me it feels like breaking up with someone after many years. At the same time, I feel a bit dirty mentioning the name in the post title.
For me it feels like breaking up with someone after many years. At the same time, I feel a bit dirty mentioning the name in the post title.
I and one of my friends that was(or is) a 4chan fan made a bet wich website will go down first, with current pacing its definitely reddit, 4chan is doing totally fine. We bet for 20€ each.
Honestly at 1:1 odds I’d probably have taken that bet (betting that Reddit would fail first). I’ve loved Reddit, but it has always been more unstable simply because it has more users and relies on outside funding.
And to be fair, Reddit will probably continue to exist. It’ll just be an empty shell of a site. The big problem with online spaces is that when people get fed up and leave, the only people who have a voice on that site are the ones who didn’t leave. Within a year, I imagine the prevailing opinion among “Redditors” will be that this protest/exodus was stupid and accomplished nothing. Because everyone who disagrees with that viewpoint will have left.
Continues to exit, like digg…
And the people still left there will contribute exactly nothing, social media has a 90 9 1 distribution, 90 just lurk 9 vote/comment 1 makes content, and the 1 from reddit is almost exclusively third party users, also the mods already leave, you know… Those people that moderate reddit for free…
If this decision isn’t reversed reddit is basically dead.
Yeah I agree. It all depends on how you define dead.
Well, i define dead as digg.com or Facebook. When there is either nothing at all anymore or its just recycled shit from other platforms.