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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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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 honestly doubt I will entirely stop using it, but I will likely entirely stop using it on mobile, and continue to use adblock on old.reddit. Some of the communities there are fairly irreplacable for me for now, especially hobby communities with their wikis and tutorials and years of answered questions you can search for.
It will most likely stop being my main time waster website on the net, though, and for that I’m not sad.
I’m in the same boat. There’s some smaller subs I like that I’ll probably go to with ad block on. If they kill old reddit i’ll be out though.
Yeah I will probably still use Reddit for my hobby communities. The knowledge amassed in those subs is too valuable to leave completely
Reddit was a part of my life for almost 11 years. I am 22 and some of my first posts on Reddit were short stories I had written and posted to r/movies for opinions on whether they would be good as full length films… lol Back then it felt so tight knit and close, like a community. It felt like you had to have some savviness for tech and computers to use it, and really it was like a home to me. A place where I could talk about the weird niche things that i found interesting, and find people like me. What Reddit has become is so far from that, it might as well be twitter or something. Just a billion people all throwing shit around, no community, no friendships, just posts with comments. The magic died and it is sad. This site seems like it might recapture some of what I loved about early Reddit, though. I hope
You started using Reddit at 11? That’s wild!
It’s up to us to make something good then! I’m certainly used to just lurking but my life these past few months have been all about change, time to make something new.
I’ll miss some of the communities I was in. I will not miss Reddit. It’s been going downhill for years.
This morning, I was mourning it. However, I made a post asking a really simple question earlier but was instead attacked. It was truly such a simple question about something related to my house. So, not anymore.
Not so much. I’m an early adopter, so it’s not like I haven’t been through this fifty million times already.
I was in a bit of a panic and still am tbh. The main thing is how easy it is to find resources for any hobby or niche interest on there. It’s gonna take a long time for any website to catch up the wealth of resources. I still find myself going “site:reddit.com thing I’m searching for” even though I don’t interact with reddit itself too much. That’s the thing that will hurt most when it’s gone. That and the daily music news/discussions since I like to listen to music.
I’m mourning the communities i found, but not reddit itself. Spez has been a turd forever. I saw him at a tech inclusion conf like 6-7 years ago and they knew then he was such a shit they didn’t even allow questions from the audience. He said nothing useful and basically said “we keep the donald because both sides” and not so subtly that they keep everyone for add views.
He sucks ass and is only concerned about IPO and will likely just change the r/all to whatever is left and declare the IPO a victory as users bleed away.
Hoping to find more of my old communities around lemmy with hopefully less bigots.
What’s happening is so clearly a money grab. Spez has decided he wants to cash out and there’s no one who can stop him. RIP, Aaron Schwartz.
Been on Reddit for 15 years. Will probably hang on to a few communities that only exist there for a while longer.
I was sad and sentimental about it when it started dying years ago. The desperate “must grow until implode” path that all corporate owned platforms follow, is inevitable. At some point it’ll suck too much for you to tolerate.
Make a first-party mobile app for a site that would be fine on web. Sell premium subscriptions. Sell microtransactions. Insert ads. Insert more ads. Insert ads inbetween content. Make the ads look like content. Put usability features behind Premium subscription and forbid integrations that do similar things. Try to be tiktok? Try to be a social network. Short videos! Try to be Youtube? Try to be Twitch!
I’ve been using Reddit since around mid-2009 (pre-Digg exodus). In my honest opinion, the signs of decline on Reddit have been bubbling for a while, and that’s forgoing any consideration of operational/executive decisions that have been made along the way.
Don’t get me wrong, Reddit even in 2009 wasn’t a consistent bastion of quality, productive, insightful discussion, and a good amount of posts on the frontpage on a given day were memes (not to say those are inherently “bad” posts; peak f7u12 anyone?). But the discussions that were had were, for the most part, friendly and/or constructive in some meaningful way. Over the years though, as the userbase grew and the site became increasingly “mainstream,” I noticed there was an uptick of either one or both of two things: 1) low effort posts/comments and 2) sheer vitriol in discussions.
When you combine those two things, you get what – in my opinion – is a social media platform with high levels of “engagement” that VCs/execs love to tout and leverage (see Reddit’s recent IPO ambitions), but ultimately, a platform that’s merely a shell of what it once used to be.
As that happened, I found myself using Reddit less as a “fun” social media platform and more as a tool – using it for discussions and/or information about niche hobbies, interests, news topics, etc. While the dominance of forums in that area may have been overtaken by subreddits over the years, I don’t think there was anything particularly unique about what Reddit as a platform was doing to help these sort of communities exist, and I really doubt that Reddit will be the last place these communities can thrive.
