• YⓄ乙 @aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Unfortunately reddit , twitter etc will never die. There will always be a subset that will keep using the platform no matter what. The only thing that can kill it is when company starts making huge loss without any user base but that’s a slow death until the said subset stops using it.

    • OhmsLawn@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, however small the user base, they still have value. Even in a worst-case—Chapter 7—situation, somebody would buy the names and logos.

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        1 year ago

        Even in a worst-case—Chapter 7—situation, somebody would buy the names and logos.

        imagine this happens and then the Reddit codebase turns out to be too much work to maintain so it just becomes a Lemmy/Kbin/similar instance lol

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      1 year ago

      They don’t need to die, they just need to become irrelevant and for the fediverse to take over.

    • themarty27@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      Alternatively they could get bought by Google and be sunsetted within six months because the devs got bored.