Reddit has recently filed plans for an IPO. Likely that many communities will be banned to make the site more appealing for advertisers.
Reddit has recently filed plans for an IPO. Likely that many communities will be banned to make the site more appealing for advertisers.
how to kill your company in one easy step! here’s how…
on a more serious note, i hope lemmy can capitalize on this move.
I do not think that they care if they kill it, as long as they get those sweet, sweet IPO payoffs. Besides, it really has been dead for years at this point… little more than a cheap Facebook knockoff.
if anything facebook has become a reddit knockoff. most of facebook has lost relevance save for their groups feature; which is essentially a basic reddit aggregation flow.
personally i can’t wait for pixelfed to get groups stable, and a phone app. hopefully i can convince some of the fb groups i’m in, to move there.
Reddit used to be a front page of 50/100 simple links, each of which highlighted a link to a comment section. Now it’s an iPhone app highlighting captioned pictures. Something that (as far as I understand it) Facebook was from the beginning. But I guess someone who actually never knew reddit until after that happened might think it the other way around.
that interface is still favored by most users, and you use it through https://old.reddit.com subdomain. facebook changed their interface to modernize last year, too. with no way to opt-out.
edit: point i tried to make is, facebook is currently focusing heavily on their groups because it’s the only thing that keeps the site alive and relevant. but their groups is a simplified aggregation feature, designed that way for advertising. and this is because very few people now use the flow/livefeed after facebooks algorithms more or less killed it for the sake of advertising, and only stick around because facebook groups more or less killed traditional forums (people opt to use groups rather than leave facebook site back when the flow was still practical and actively used by users). if they hadn’t accidentally captured the usecase of groups, facebook would be dead. since most users now opt for alternative platforms such as instagram, twitter, tiktok, reddit or other social media outlets to share information.
And The Big Bang Theory was an award-winning comedy show that lasted for 12 seasons.
I mean, when you say “favored”, you mean it’s the only one easily available, and the only one acknowledged to exist in a way that most users would even be aware of it. Which is a strange definition for that word, since it implies readily available options that people are aware of.
Debatable. Not sure what “dead” means in this context, but if I can assume you mean “Myspace dead” or “Digg dead”, then I have serious doubts. If instead you mean “tweeners are upset grandpa uses Facebook so it’s not cool anymore” then it’s been dead for years and simply doesn’t care.
I am interested in the topic. By that I mean if I could somehow help it become dead, I’d gladly do so. But I don’t see a Myspace-like event in its future, near or distant, and I can’t imagine the circumstances that could even lead to that.
back when they made the modern interface default there was a lot of blow back and a lot of information about how to keep using the old interface. but yes, it’s fair to assume new users are unaware of the old interface. it is also fair to assume users with a small number of sub subscriptions were also not exposed to the information. but you said “But I guess someone who actually never knew reddit until after that happened might think it the other way around.”, what i meant was that users who were exposed to the old interface still favor the old interface.
true. facebook can’t technically be “dead” because it’s the de-facto internet in countries without net neutrality. meta (google, line, and a few others) are paying providers to be “free and available” despite no paid internet subscription, and thus people who can’t afford an internet connection in these places (which is most people) hence use facebook as their de-facto internet. it’s impossible for alternatives to challenge facebook in these regions because there’s no pocket deep enough to challenge them. but that doesn’t mean facebook isn’t dying, and losing relevance, to other platforms in countries with proper net neutrality laws.
most non-tech hobby communities now only live on facebook, thus the people in said hobbies are stuck there. if groups was somehow replaced by an improved social media platform specifically for this goal, with enough budget to market itself. facebook would lose most it’s relevance. i can see this happen especially if buy and sell was less restricted and capitalized on by the alternative. facebooks new buy and sell restrictions in groups has caused a lot of these communities to get pissed and looking for alternatives/solutions, many of those i’m in are using discord as the medium for trade and exchange, but it’s far from ideal.
controversial use of the word “Capitalize” 0_0
(is joke)