Can Reddit survive as its volunteer workforce close down subreddits and walk away from the site in protest at the management’s new policies?
digg.com is still around, myspace.com is still around. reddit.com will also still be around in 10+ years. So what? We’re here now, and whatever’s left of Reddit will be over there.
We can only hope.
I want Reddit to bugger off as much as the next person, but I don’t think it’s going to die. Even Tumblr didn’t truly die.
Reddit’s management seems to think that Reddit is too big to fail. They’re wrong
That.
Reddit will become pointless sooner or later but ipo will happen and Huffman will make his dough
Funny as 1700s fashion and john Oliver’s in the subs people need to gtfo asap if they don’t agree with what Reddit is becoming
but ipo will happen and Huffman will make his dough
What I don’t understand is, what idiots are going to buy the shares with all this bad press? Isn’t all this nonsense tanking the IPO value?
I think federation is the path forward. It’s quite obvious to me. I’m not too too smart, but my gut is usually pretty accurate. Community funded, open source and decentralization is the only way we are gonna make it past the Fermi paradox imo, in all facets of life, including the internet, and especially social media.
The framework for the feddiverse is so organic that it just makes sense. It’s good shit.
We’ve shown that it works for e-mail, it works for the web, it works for phones…
The age of monolithic web services is likely coming to an end, certainly for social media. The “free until we dominate the space, then enshitify” business model is proven not to work. Anyone who continues to invest in it is a fool.
