Lvxferre@lemmy.mlM to SNOOcalypse - document, discuss, and promote the downfall of Reddit.@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
Lvxferre@lemmy.mlM to SNOOcalypse - document, discuss, and promote the downfall of Reddit.@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
The title is a bit clickbaity but the article is worth a read. To keep it short:
- large subreddits stopped protesting
- 1.8k subreddits are still in the dark, but those are rather small
- [from the article] “Though the Reddit team likely caused permanent damage to the platform and its relationship with users, Spez got his way. But that victory might not mean much.”
IMO it was a Pyrrhic victory. Sure, the protests ended, and most users are still stuck in that shithole… but the reputation damage won’t be reversed, Reddit managed to seed its competitors (as this one) with the necessary userbase to make them functional, and odds are that Reddit will keep going in its death spiral. And that doesn’t even take into account the amount of bad press that it generated, that will hurt IPO numbers for sure.
I strongly disagree, for four reasons:
Could the moderators get a victory? I don’t think so; I believe that they should’ve scorched earth and migrated. Even then, the revolts did damage against Reddit, that Reddit could go without. Reddit might’ve won the war against the jannies but it didn’t benefit from its own victory, well, that’s a Pyrrhic victory.
Clever marketing could do something but Reddit is not clever. (If Reddit was clever it would’ve killed the 3PAs without a revolt, by boiling some frogs.)
I mentioned this in other threads, but my prediction is that Reddit will neither suddenly crash nor stay alive “just fine”. It’ll slowly go downhill.
In other words, Reddit will turn into Digg.
I am going to quote a wise saying I said on New Digg : “An empty Subreddit has been abandoned, a full subreddit will be abandoned”