• Skray@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think reddit will die, but they definitely hurt themselves. The fediverse grew by leaps and bounds over the past week, reddit drove so much traffic to their potential competitors. Then when the 3rd party apps die, they’ll lose some more.

    Reddit is gambling on gaining enough revenue from pushing people on 3rd party apps to 1st party that it makes up for the loss of users overall.

    People on reddit say “Why do we care about 3rd party apps, it’s such a small section of the userbase” But apparently reddit cares enough about that small section of the userbase that they need to push them to their own app.

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      1 year ago

      I said this elsewhere, but this isn’t the end of reddit. The end of reddit will be when everyone on the site says “God i’m tired of all these fediverse/(some shittier platform) reposts, why am I even here?”

      • Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi
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        1 year ago

        Likely Reddit will do another twitter and ban links from known threadiverse instances/communities - they don’t want to give people an excuse to leave Reddit. Especially because I’d say the threadiverse actually can present a threat to Reddit.

        I’ll admit though, I still have my twitter account and I pinned my mastodon account directly to it just before that rule changed - and I still haven’t been banned for it, and as far as I can tell it’s still up there. but I might’ve just gotten lucky - after all I am on a smaller instance.

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      1 year ago

      Nobody said it makes sense.

      We’ll see in a few days what the people end up choosing. I’m not going back unless demands are met, but I do have a tiny glimmer of hope that the people will let it go as apps disappear, and a slightly larger glimmer of hope that it’ll just kinda shrivel over the following months and years.

      But, in all likelihood, people are dumb, and spineless and ignorant, and will continue to make spez money and the durability of the site will endure. It’ll be worse, but not worse enough for the vast majority of normal people to not use it. I have hope, but it’s simply hope in the face of my ever growing misanthropy.