I’ve never been sentimental about a social media site but it’s sad for me to see reddit so clearly killing itself. Pushshift is already banned and Apollo is soon to follow. Reddit will either pivot fully to a mainstream audience or die out. It’s just sad for me to see it doing it to itself.
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Remember that legendary times when reddit was new?
That’s what’s happening now in the fediverse with Lemmy and kbin, I am to excited being a part of it as to mourn about reedit.
Yeah I think it’s part of the natural cycle of social media for corporations to ruin things, increasing organisational complexity leads to management who can increasingly delude themselves their interests still align with the users when they’ve clearly drifted far apart.
I think the future is small, decentralised communities with no VCs, no ad men, and no CEOs. I’m much more excited to be a part of that than I am sad to see Reddit go.
I hope the decentralization has a chance. It could still be monetarised or “regulated to death” by government’s . They both don’t like the loss of control that system brings.
So we should have fun as long as it lasts.
The one thing that I am worried about for a decentralized future is incentives.
What keeps a federalized service owner going over the years? Donations alone won’t account for server costs, let alone time spent maintaining code or moderating communities.
Most successful open source projects offer enterprise packages to sustain incentivization, or are a subset of a megacorp that releases (off of the top of my head: canonical, hashicorp, apache, mongodb, k8s, chromium, android, redhat) and the list goes on.
Most, if not all, of the donations based or FOSS projects that I have seen over the years lose traction because the hobby wears off for the core maintainers.
It’s a fair question, although people kept phpBB boards running for years as hobbyist projects with decent communities on them and moderators are usually volunteers. We don’t necessarily want tight-knit communities to scale to Reddit’s size anyway and the only thing that’s really changed other than Reddit eating the wind out of their sails for those types of self-hosted communities is that search engines are worthless spam-serving tools now so they’re less discoverable which the fediverse seems like a decent enough solution to.
I just hate the fact that 4chan will survive reddit…
I’ll probably miss some of the smaller communitys i was active in… :/
It kinda feels like this whole mess is giving me permission to leave. Like when you know that you are in an unhealthy relationship but don’t know how to get out of it and suddenly your partner says that maybe you should start seeing other people.
And you actually hope your ex actually does start seeing other people so you aren’t tempted to return like you always do.
its sucks to see a site you used to like slowy becoming worst and worst, but its always better to look for alternatives over sinking with the ship
The place we all moved to that was supposed to be different turning into exactly what it pro.ised to be different from
It almost doesn’t even feel real. Like, in a few weeks I won’t be using reddit almost at all anymore since RiF will be gone. And yet, I’m still browsing Reddit just as much right now as ever and seeing almost no difference other than salty posts about the API changes on a few subs.
I wonder if that’s how the people in disaster movies feel when they just stand there, watching the tidal wave/asteroid/sharknado heading their way.
I’m still in the anger stage and I can’t understand why Reddit is moving towards a full self-destruction, but I’m glad that Lemmy exists because I believe it can become a suitable alternative over time.
I’m going back to bargaining. Maybe I can find a way to still use it even after they kill off old reddit (I’m sure this is next). But I just think of how the soul of the site will be gone. It’ll just be like any facebook group or twitter feed.
I’m really fucking pissed because reddit is the only forum for a lot of topics. Realistically, I can’t say I’m going to stop using it totally. Like, you can clearly see it is at risk of a tumblr-esque descent. The CEO has repeatedly said they are “fighting” for nsfw content to remain, but I trust 0% of what that guy says considering he’s repeatedly lied, slandered people and freely admits to just trying to get profitable as soon as possible (see latest ama, for the IPO so he can cash out, presumably). If this really is a Tumblr level decline which it remains to be seen if it is, they’ll be in desperate need of more VC cash so porn is as good as gone.
Anyways, I hope some communities start coming over. The blackout is a good protest, but meaningless if there’s no actual action apart from that. Regarding the blackout, I don’t even really give a shit about “saving” Reddit anymore, as they’ve made it very clear they are beyond saving. I just want the same experience with the same level of community somewhere else (fuck capitalism and centralization though)
I really hope that Reddit never becomes profitable despite all of their best efforts–at least as long as Steve is running it. He is so unprofessional and does not deserve to cash in. I hope he loses money slowly but surely due to his incompetent decisions, just as Lowtax did at SomethingAwful.
I agree with you about the communities and forums. Those take years to develop, even with promising options like Lemmy. Reddit became so popular there was a niche community for literally anything you can imagine. I hope the enthusiasm carries over and develops elsewhere/here.
I’ve checked out for a couple years ago.
In many ecosystems, wildfires are nature’s way of regenerating the earth,
Reddit needs to die unfortunately. The last 5 years of development was spent on shitty stickers and nfts that no one will even remember. The project has zero vision, no wonder they want to cash out.
I’m looking forward to seeing a new concept, from someone. A new idea all together. Like TikTok/vine or IG. Maybe even something not social media related.
Good point. The main issue with Reddit is that producing original content is really difficult and TikTok like take - where making content is as easy as humanly possible - could be very refreshing.
Nope, not at all. All products and services inevitably kill themselves when they prioritize growth against providing a high-quality service. Infinite growth is impossible and when the service’s growth hits its natural limit, it will introduce quality setbacks to reach the profit goals. I’ll miss the contributors on Reddit who made its communities great, but I also know these communities and their users will survive without Reddit. As for Reddit the corporation itself…
I mourn what it was, yes.
There was a recent comment I read about how it’s become this incredible resource for the most obscure tech issues and they were reluctant to delete their posts and accounts because they’d receive random messages of thanks years after a tech resource post was made.
And it’s true. Reddit has become an invaluable resource for these kinds of things. Not only that, but it’s one of the few places that exists on the web where cohesive and coherent discussions even exist. It was always the community and discussion that made reddit great and they want to turn it into yet another swipebait infested serotonin sponge. I sincerely hope lemmy can take its place, but there are going to be some major growing pains if we get big influx of “redfugees.”
It almost makes me think that when something becomes such an enormous and invaluable public resource, there should be a legal compulsion to archive it before doing anything that will compromise its accessibility.
___I don’t really miss it at all tbh. I wasn’t an active poster, but I would lurk every day. At a certain point it got repetitive, where I could guess what the comments would be like on the next post. It got too big to support any meaningful discussion, and devlovled into stupid jokes and puns.
Well if you only browse default communities yes. This is very much not the case in niche communities. There are many very small subreddit that are very productive for problem solving.
Yeah for sure.
And mods would run wild with power? Remember r/askscience? Mods basically killed it by gatekeeping to the extreme. IMO peak reddit is 2012.
Yeah for sure. I was on reddit for 13 years, there were users I recognised by name, people I was friendly with, people I’d have intense debates with, many, many, many subreddits I loved.
But nothing lasts forever, and this place seems nice so here’s to new beginnings 🍻
Same exact situation here. Been on reddit since digg v4 happened. Reddit was far from perfect, but for the most part I enjoyed my time there. If this is the end of reddit, then so be it. Lemmy/Beehaw looks like it can grow into a good replacement.
Heres to new beginnings!! 💖🥳🥳
No, Reddit is trash. What you’re missing is the small communities that made it worth enduring. Those communities are created and inhabited by people like us. They will live on somewhere else—maybe even here.
That’s my sentiment as well. It’s just a transition period.
Can we also have a moment of silence for all the other great link sites that have died?
Stumbleupon, kuro5hin, digg, fark (still exists technically but as a shell of its former self)
What was your favorite before reddit?
Maybe I’m dating myself but before Reddit it was just rss feeds for me 😅
/. for me. Pass the aspirin…
Slashdot isn’t really dead though is it? Still very active, just, not as popular perhaps.
A simulacra shambles on.
Sure enough, it is, and my mourning for “imagine a beowulf cluster of…” memes was premature! I was more following along with @Hexorg’s statement of how he consumed news before Reddit.
Slashdot is not only still alive, but it’s not even bad.
It’s not what it used to be, though. Back in the CmdrTaco days, when it was the place to go for Linux news, it felt like it was part of a movement. Now it’s just kind of…there…hanging on. Not bad, just not exciting.
It’s cool to go into the Slashdot comments these days and still see some 3-digit (and sometimes even 2-digit) UIDs posting after all these years.
Bannination and its successor zombn. Small, funny, and I met my wife there!
Yes and no, as a 12 year vet.
Reddit is not what it was when I joined. Back in the early 2010’s reddit really felt like the internet’s evolution from forums. Not going to pretend it was the first, but it really did feel like something was special about it. The community aspect was really important back then. All of the sudden, it felt like you could literally build a community around anything, with little effort, and the “Build it and they will come” factor would kick in.
But things have spoiled since then. We have over a decade worth of “Eternal Septembers”, and being a redditor turned into “being a redditor” has turned into, we’ll it’s just another part of social media infrastructure. Pretty much everybody I know who has use the site has basically sectioned themselves off from using the site as a a whole and just have their specific subs that they browse. I’m a programmer so I basically just use it for the programming subs and different games I play like OSRS, Factorio, etc.
And I guess, a last thought, I don’t think reddit is going to die from this. I would wager the vast majority of the userbase really doesn’t give a shit, and to be honest, that is fine. Like I said, reddit is part of internet social infrastructure at this point. It’s probably still going to be useful to prefix google searches with “reddit some product” to find the best human reviews of that product. But for me, I don’t really feel the need to keep using it day to day. I’m looking for a community and I can find it elsewhere.
