When the user revolt ends—if it ever does—Reddit’s community won’t ever be the same.

“They’re shooting themselves in the foot,” Mir says. “The content of the users is what makes the platform worth visiting. These hosts kind of run into this confusion that their hosting is the reason people are going there, but it’s really for the other users on the medium.”

  • Mintyytea@kbin.social
    6·
    2 years ago

    I think that is true that most people will not leave reddit. I’m in a subreddit called redditalternatives, and lately not many people are posting in it anymore. It definitely feels like a niche thing, but I think it’s okay. Reddit won’t last forever, and in the meantime, we can be seeing if fediverse is the way forward. This isn’t the first time reddit screwed up and it won’t be the last.

    They’re also I think trying to become like tiktok and give lots of forever scrollable content, but I think tiktok/youtube shorts already fill that niche

    • argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
      13·
      2 years ago

      I’m in a subreddit called redditalternatives, and lately not many people are posting in it anymore.

      I imagine that’s because they all jumped ship already.

    • IncidentalIncidence@feddit.de
      3·
      2 years ago

      honestly, part of the reason I made a lemmy account at all is because it feels a little like reddit when I first started using it – pretty niche, and less toxic and low-quality because of it.

      reddit in the last few years has become very toxic. The smaller communities are still okay, but on all of the main subs it’s just page after page of the same snarky jokes and tired memes.

      so while more growth would be nice, I’m fine if most of reddit stays on reddit in the short-term. the fediverse can be its own thing.

    • MaggiWuerze@feddit.de
      2·
      2 years ago

      The Lemmy and Lemmymigration subs have like 2k users, which also didn’t really change over the last few days. If that is anything to go by I don’t expect a digg like exodus anytime soon.

      • QHC@kbin.social
        2·
        2 years ago

        Where you on reddit when Digg collapsed? Because it wasn’t just a solitary wave. Like human migration around Earth in prehistory, it was multiple waves, each motivated by different reasons.

        The important thing is that this wave may have been enough to jumpstart something that can survive on its own. Just need to be ready for the next wave.