The move is controversial, with many third-party apps having to shut down as a result, but the Reddit CEO has his reasons and doesn’t appear to be backing down
They’ll be right. The quality of everything, not the least of which is internet scrolling, that the general public accepts is horrendous.
Somebody else put it best here that Reddit won’t die, it will still be around for all those people. Hopefully the rest of us move on and Reddit becomes “Oh huh? That place is still around?”
They think they are too big to fail and enough users will stick around up voting repost bots that it will be profitable.
They’ll be right. The quality of everything, not the least of which is internet scrolling, that the general public accepts is horrendous.
Somebody else put it best here that Reddit won’t die, it will still be around for all those people. Hopefully the rest of us move on and Reddit becomes “Oh huh? That place is still around?”
For anyone who doubts this, note that Digg still exists.
Exactly. I think people on Lemmy are the once who participated actively in subreddits and respected the content. Power users.
People who just view Reddit as just another social media, i.e., the majority, will continue using Reddit as it is.
Sadly, I’m not sure they’re wrong.