We just don’t smell the rot yet. It’s not about the actual body (website) and the name. It is about the spirit, the personality. And that has been compromised and killed off because of factors one could call enshittification or whatever. Digg and Tumblr still exist, at least in name, but not in spirit. I think Reddit has past that threshold. It will be a slow death and I am not sure the fediverse will fill the void it leaves behind. But I do think and believe communities will never sustain on venture capital.
It “died” a couple years ago when it became closed-source.
This. We’re just now noticing the
spezflies on the corpse is all.I remember when their canary went away and everyone said it was the end of reddit lol.
meaning it’s just as alive as it’s always been. traffic has hardly stopped as of now.