• ExcessivelySalty@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The blackout probably won’t result in Reddit failing, but he has to realize that if he keeps this up, it’s only going to take some aspiring programmers/designers some time to develop more Reddit alternatives, and when one of them becomes viable, down goes Reddit.

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      1 year ago

      Reddit will go on, as Digg also did, this is not a fairy tale. But it will definitely suffer, I’m doubtful if even the IPO will happen (or what kind of valuation they could get)

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      1 year ago

      Oh, reddit’s still going to be around for a long time, and I don’t think reddit clones were and are any real threat to reddit (See Voat, or any of the crypto based reddit clones). However, Lemmy is different in that federation is a revolutionary change to the reddit format just as nested comments on reddit is a revolutionary change to traditional internet forums.

      So, a likely scenario is that high effort content creators are going away first, leaving the average user who only notice the content getting worse and worse until they leave too, and the dreg will get more and more concentrated as more regular people leave, which lead to worse content, turning it into a death spiral.

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        1 year ago

        just as nested comments on reddit is a revolutionary change to traditional internet forums.

        Uh, Reddit hardly created the idea of nested comments. You can go back to usenet or Prodigy/Compuserve in the 90s and find nested conversations. Slashdot did it, Daily Kos did it, shit, even the old school VN Boards did it.

        Unless I misunderstand your point?