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Surely one of us here can start a new Reddit. Call it not Reddit. The original vision of the site being self funded by users for users is a good one. I would argue a necessary one. Just look at all the high value discussion being lost due to Reddit being enshittified
We were told that the boycotts last year were the end of reddit, or at least a substantial brain drain. Reddit was going to be a lawless wasteland because no mod would accept tending the garden anymore. Reddit is now a public company with a CEO that just got a huge compensation package while mods still work for free. Far from lawless, far from being a wasteland. Even the hacker community is still using reddit despite…
Front page vote counts are now typically 1/10th what they were before the exodus, and bot content is visibly more prevalent. If you expected the website to die overnight, that was just an unrealistic definition of failure for a large website. Digg, the failure that founded Reddit, is still alive today. MySpace still exists. AOL is still selling dial-up internet. Failure at this scale is a slow slide to irrelevance, a…
And the whiz kid who launches the new and improved competitor. Every failure story like this is also a seed of opportunity.
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Front page vote counts are now typically 1/10th what they were before the exodus, and bot content is visibly more prevalent. If you expected the website to die overnight, that was just an unrealistic definition of failure for a large website. Digg, the failure that founded Reddit, is still alive today. MySpace still exists. AOL is still selling dial-up internet. Failure at this scale is a slow slide to irrelevance, a…
The only winner here is the CEO. And the whiz kid who launches the new and improved competitor. Every failure story like this is also a seed of opportunity.
We were told that the boycotts last year were the end of reddit, or at least a substantial brain drain. Reddit was going to be a lawless wasteland because no mod would accept tending the garden anymore. Reddit is now a public company with a CEO that just got a huge compensation package while mods still work for free. Far from lawless, far from being a wasteland. Even the hacker community is still using reddit despite…
Reddit reports something like 200 million active users. It could lose 99% of those, and it would still have more people than most cities. What, you want tumbleweeds to physically roll across your screen when you look up "reddit.com"? It's just a website. Use it, or don't. Save what you want, knowing it won't last. Sucks, but the Internet was meant for document delivery, not to become the one and only permanent home o…
Which would make it completely useless as an ad platform, which is the only way Reddit makes money.
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It's silly to act like every online context has a real world analogue. But no, I don't vandalize it. Whatever you consider the real world equivalent of deleting my comments after the place has enshittified itself, that's what I do.
There is a difference between deleting a comment and purposefully posting meaningless junk.
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> Front page vote counts are now typically 1/10th what they were Is that really a reliable metric for activity there? Genuinely curious. What if more content is being published and popular posts don't get as much voting because of the churn? > before the exodus Exodus to where, exactly? A few thousand users switching to some obscure alternative isn't much. Sure, people left Twitter, but Threads and Bluesky are way bi…
I left for HN. Not going back.
It's been a process.
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> more people how are you so sure the extra traffic is from people?
VPNs, datacenters and Tor are pretty much blocked and API costs money, plus everyone I know uses it nowadays. I think it's mostly legit traffic.
There are services which provide a service so that your bot can still scrape from sites like reddit which try to block bots.
We were told that the boycotts last year were the end of reddit, or at least a substantial brain drain. Reddit was going to be a lawless wasteland because no mod would accept tending the garden anymore. Reddit is now a public company with a CEO that just got a huge compensation package while mods still work for free. Far from lawless, far from being a wasteland. Even the hacker community is still using reddit despite…