• DAVENP0RT@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Reddit relies almost exclusively on hobbyists and volunteers to both manage, moderate, and create content for the site. They’ve burned a lot of bridges with this stunt by blatantly giving the finger to a bunch of those hobbyists and volunteers.

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      1 year ago

      I suspect reddit will survive as long as subreddits come back and won’t go dark indefinitely. Karmafarmers, reposters, actual OC content creators and bots need to delete themselves from that platform as well. Are majority of people going to do that? I seriously doubt that. Considering that majority of subreddits that have gone dark have decided to only do it for a few days speaks volumes what will happen next.

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        1 year ago

        Reddit isn’t going anywhere.

        Its going to be a different environment though.

        The people who don’t understand or care about whats going on will stay, and they will consume the influencer style content that is going to hang around and fill the void. Reddit wants profit, so its changing to a model where they have end to end control and stripping the 3rd party development and modification.

        Hopefully the development community packs up and moves to the fediverse.

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              Absolutely, I agree. Whether or not it is good or successful, I reckon the owners will consider Reddit more marketable to advertisers in a couple of months. The ‘milquetoasting’ of Reddit has been going on for a long old time now but I think they’re close to their endgame.

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                1 year ago

                Its pretty wild though that he claimed that reddit isnt profitable right now if they are indeed planning on an IPO in the near future.
                I know the world has a short memory, but its a pretty bad claim for a CEO to make who wants to sell off the platform

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                  1 year ago

                  Especially as the platform is actively losing members. Even if you bank on maintaining a large enough number, you’ve admitted the company wasn’t profitable even before it’s challenges. What chance is there of profitability this late into the game, if that’s the case!?