Can Reddit survive as its volunteer workforce close down subreddits and walk away from the site in protest at the management's new policies?

Can Reddit survive as its volunteer workforce close down subreddits and walk away from the site in protest at the management’s new policies?

  • lynny@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    We can only hope.

    I want Reddit to bugger off as much as the next person, but I don’t think it’s going to die. Even Tumblr didn’t truly die.

    • Ghostface@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      What do you consider dead? If relevant is the deciding factor then yeah, Tumblr, Digg, Yahoo are dead.

      The key being how much of reddit functioned off of their invisible workforce? How much of their app will still use after api useful ness has dried out.

      Give it till Nov

    • pacology@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It will take Reddit a long time to die but it’s completely possible to piss off the minority that keeps it going which will result it to effectively die.

  • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I think federation is the path forward. It’s quite obvious to me. I’m not too too smart, but my gut is usually pretty accurate. Community funded, open source and decentralization is the only way we are gonna make it past the Fermi paradox imo, in all facets of life, including the internet, and especially social media.

    The framework for the feddiverse is so organic that it just makes sense. It’s good shit.

    • cerevant@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      We’ve shown that it works for e-mail, it works for the web, it works for phones…

      The age of monolithic web services is likely coming to an end, certainly for social media. The “free until we dominate the space, then enshitify” business model is proven not to work. Anyone who continues to invest in it is a fool.

  • _Hyperion@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    Reddit will become pointless sooner or later but ipo will happen and Huffman will make his dough
    Funny as 1700s fashion and john Oliver’s in the subs people need to gtfo asap if they don’t agree with what Reddit is becoming

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      but ipo will happen and Huffman will make his dough

      What I don’t understand is, what idiots are going to buy the shares with all this bad press? Isn’t all this nonsense tanking the IPO value?

  • SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    There is nothing special about Reddit except its community and the content the community created. Its software is trivial. Unless Reddit reverses course, Reddit will join Digg, MySpace, and LiveJournal in the dustbin of social network history, and a new site, such as the user-funded Beehaw, or an old one, such as Digg, will take its place.

    Lol, right, Digg will come back from the crypt. Had a good laugh.

  • TragicNotCute@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Great piece and a sneaky little beehaw link at the end. I would have rather seen it be a Lemmy.world link instead, but oh well.