Why it’ll only get worse from here.
All the big tech platforms have followed this pattern: Facebook, Amazon, TikTok, eBay, Google. They used to be good, then they got less good, now they’re awful for everyone but also the only game in town.
I’d call Google pretty darn good. I mean, it gets hit with spammers, but I don’t think that it’s especially bad at dealing with them – any large search engine will be the target of the SEO crowd.
Amazon’s not perfect – I’d really rather than it not incessantly keep trying to get me to sign up for an Amazon Prime subscription, but I’m generally not all that unhappy with it. It isn’t always the best retailer, but I haven’t generally had a bad time using Amazon.
I haven’t used eBay enough to have much of an opinion, and I’ve actively avoided Facebook and TikTok since they came out (though sometimes TikTok videos spill over elsewhere, and I do think that the fact that everything gets set to music seems to be really annoying).
Nah, Reddit is fine. Traffic is back to normal levels.
Once the changes come into effect July 1st I think a lot more people will turn away.
Its the newer users that only discovered Reddit within the past few years that will stay, long term users remember the gold old days, and have used third party apps since the getgo. The old timers are the ones truly congregating.
The question is about the short run on sites like this, which will lead to medium run problems over on Reddit.
We have already seen many mods and power users leave Reddit for federated alternatives. They’re bringing their content with them. That in itself does not upset Reddit, because the initial number of users is relatively low.
But losing the content effects Reddit because it becomes less interesting to browse. As you realize that the site is just going to be worse than it was last week, you lose motivation to log in. That happens on a content level, but it’s also going to happen on an advertising level. One of the goals of cutting off the API is to get rid of third-party clients, many of which didn’t show advertising. The Reddit admins have said they want to make more money which means they’re going to introduce more and more advertisements. And it’s just anecdotal, but the increase in ads over on Instagram in the past 2 years means I don’t look at it much anymore because it’s just a waste of my time. That’s where Reddit’s going very soon.
Of course users are willing to deal with some advertisement if the high quality content is available and especially if the high quality content isn’t available anywhere else. Unfortunately for Reddit, and fortunately for all of us, that’s not true anymore.
Sounds like it’s time to fire up some vaporwave and savor the a e s t h e t i c
I understand the sentiment, but malls are cool, they are great place to hang out with plenty of things to do. And people don’t need to worry about weather conditions, don’t need to drive (assuming you can go to the mall via transportation).
I don’t know why North America decided strip mall with oversized parking (most strip malls literally have more space for cars than for people, which is kind of ridiculous IMO) is better than traditional mall.
Because rents at malls started to go up, and urban sprawl meant people lived further further away from the malls, making them less convenient to get to.
So, fewer people are showing up, choosing not to travel as far, or to shop online instead, while rents grow. This pushes retailers out, and robs the malls themselves of the resources or motivation to pay for maintenance.
We saw over the pandemic that commercial landlords were unwilling to give clients breaks on rent, and so a lot of businesses closed. Around here, at least, many of those locations are still vacant, because the demand for rent now doesn’t account for the lack of it later.
So, you know, fundamentally the same thing happening at Reddit.
So Reddit will have a bunch of closed stores but an open and fully functioning Bath & Body Works store?