Maybe. But it may well be, that Reddit has enough momentum to keep going with the shitload of dummy users who don’t care about third party apps or quality.
I feel lots of people say “Who cares about 3rd party apps?” don’t realize the mod community also heavily relies on 3rd party apps. So high chance of the quality of subreddits going downhill regardless.
Either way, anyone using Reddit still should be looking for a way off the platform.
For all we know, half the users over there (re)posting content could be bots that continue indefinitely, reposting more and more popular content from other sites like TikTok with more bots leaving comments that they stole from other posts. Reddit could in theory continue operating even with zero actual users.
Maybe. But it may well be, that Reddit has enough momentum to keep going with the shitload of dummy users who don’t care about third party apps or quality.
I feel lots of people say “Who cares about 3rd party apps?” don’t realize the mod community also heavily relies on 3rd party apps. So high chance of the quality of subreddits going downhill regardless. Either way, anyone using Reddit still should be looking for a way off the platform.
I currently enjoy the amount of users in Lemmy. It’s a nice community now that feels like the old internet days.
So I hope not too many people swap over.
For all we know, half the users over there (re)posting content could be bots that continue indefinitely, reposting more and more popular content from other sites like TikTok with more bots leaving comments that they stole from other posts. Reddit could in theory continue operating even with zero actual users.
True, but bots might also no longer be feasible with the API pricing. So they even alienate that!