Delete old.reddit
All the longer term users who keep the ecosystem functional will leave in frustration. That is, the ones who didn’t leave already over spez deciding to kneecap third party clients.
Once those users are gone, the death spiral starts.
Yep. The day they kill old.reddit is the day I stop using it.
Tbf Reddit revenue comes from ads that are based on traffic, so even if 99% of the accounts are fake bots they still make money. I think that loophole will keep them on forever
I mean, not long term though? Advertisers and Marketers don’t invest if their ads don’t have some ROI. And no bot is going to engage with an ad to the point of actually result in a sale for obvious reasons.
I expect Reddit to die in a couple decades for the simple reason that no social media platform will out last a generation of users. I could be wrong, as the modern social media landscape isn’t even one generation old, and perhaps there will be multi generational social media platforms, but I just don’t see it.
After the IPO, Reddit stock plummets and Steve Huffman leaves with a big payout. Reddit Inc appoints a new CEO who starts to push deeply unpopular changes in the name of turning a profit. There is a major exodus to other platforms.
Reddit goes the way of Digg v4.
Itll slowly bleed out users to a number of alternative forms of social media and become functionally irrelevant like Slashdot. Still alive but in the same way someone with most of their brain turned to fluid and kept alive on life support.
IPO -> billionaire purchase -> enshittification -> never dies but sucks forever
The same way it happened with digg: Clear turn against user interests to chase revenue from brands directly, a slow but steady drain of its important users to competitors, a sinking of its stock value, until it is finally acquired by a online brands clearinghouse like Demand Media for parts.
It’ll die the same reason quora dies. really bad content inaccessible through enshitification
Same as ever, Enshitification.
it’ll continue to stay up for years, funded by gullible investors who are convinced that the heavily sanitized and automated interactions are genuinely organic
next inline with Slashdot and digg
One evening Reddit, while at a play with his wealthy parents, decided to leave early and went out the side exit into the alley. Unfortunately for Reddit, in this story the ne’er-do-wells shoot the kid, parents were fine and they had more kids after, changing nothing but their name.
One thing I just saw is new tools for brands. This doesn’t say so, but I could imagine them allowing brands to pay to post on subreddits against the will of the moderators.
If they do that, or turn off old.reddit, I think they’ll drive away many of the core users who make communities there valuable (those who didn’t leave after the API debacle).
It’s already dead to me.
Same way reddit died for me; the front page was literally nothing but neo-nazi rage bait.
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