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I’ve been seeing a lot of angst and emotion on the Reddit migration, which results in either defeatism or blind optimism. In the end, it probably doesn’t matter, but I wanted to do more fact-based research into the subject.

I put my findings and my analysis into what it would actually take to kill Reddit, based on the deaths of Digg and MySpace. tl;dr it’s a lot less dramatic than most people would think.

  • Harlan_Cloverseed@kbin.social
    25·
    2 years ago

    Good article. Just going to say it again here. Forget about killing Reddit. Just stop using it, and tell people about the alternatives. Enjoy this peaceful time in the fediverse while it lasts.

    • tal@kbin.social
      7·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, that’s a good point. Right now, Reddit, like Google, has to deal with a lot of issues due to the size of the userbase, like spammers putting a lot of effort into specifically targeting them. If the Fediverse gets big enough, that’s gonna be a problem too, but at the moment, one nice thing is that there isn’t a bunch of bots spamming it because it’s more worthwhile to try to go after Reddit or whatever.

      Might as well build some good memories now.

      • Harlan_Cloverseed@kbin.social
        8·
        2 years ago

        Another thing is - anyone who was there when Digg was still great knows — digg didn’t die overnight and there was no big movement. People started using Digg and Reddit simultaneously, and gradually moved away from Digg. There were platform changes etc, but Digg was already dying at that point. It happened organically.

        • assbutt@kbin.social
          3·
          2 years ago

          And it lives on even today. There is no killing reddit, there will be no big definitive win, that’s just not how those things go. Enough people are invested in reddit for reasons that wouldn’t even occur to normal users; it won’t be allowed to die.

          • Blakerboy777@kbin.social
            2·
            2 years ago

            And it lives on even today.
            Digg shut down, was sold, and the present website is completely different.

            • assbutt@kbin.social
              2·
              2 years ago

              Nothing you said refutes anything I said. My point was that reddit has value even if all the humans leave. Digg was sold, implying value, yes?

              There will never be some end of the road, flipping the giant breaker on reddit’s servers movie scene death. It will live on in some form no matter the outcome of the current drama.

              Of course digg.com is a wildly different place today, the entire world is a different place today…

        • Cyzaine@kbin.social
          3·
          2 years ago

          Can I just say I can’t believe I’m doing ANOTHER migration? I thought Digg to Reddit was a once a life sort of thing.

    • Aeonx@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      I don’t know how to save the posts that really resonate and reground me outside of commenting on it. This is one of those posts. Thank you.