It dies every time someone stops using it.
4chan was hating on Reddit before it was cool
Will the bots be what ends it?
https://lemmynsfw.com/comment/8244505
It’s already dead. r/wholesomememes decided to allow only original content (no bots or reposts), and, after two days the only post was one begging human users to post anything original.
There are no users left. It’s bots all the way through, like maggots in a rotting corpse.
Half the users may as well be bots anyway, it’s just dorks yelling the same catch phrases at each other in the comments.
Have a look at r/wholesomememes; they decided to allow only original content (no bots or reposts), and, after two days the only post was one begging human users to post anything original.
Much more than half the users are bots.
Subs like that are bot farms for sure, but it’s been common knowledge for a decade that the default subs are awful. The ratio in smaller subs is probably a lot better.
Besides, I think things did get better there after a while?
I use it less and less. I only really visit two sub reddit, and one of them has been really declining as it has grown.
It’s gonna die like Digg or Fark … Which are still around, but shells of their former selves. TBH most normal folks haven’t even heard of Reddit, let alone Lemmy or Mastodon.
I disagree with you on how well known Reddit is, it’s been mentioned in enough news stories over the years that most people have heard of it, even if they’ve never been there.
Yeah, the name was picking up steam. If they hadn’t fucked it up that name would be been gold in 1 or 2 years.