Let it burn.

I think there’ll be a similar amount of users to begin with but over time a poorer quality of moderation. People who want quality will experiment with other places like here until something takes off; the others will stick around for the memes.

What it will live or die by is whether its niche subs keep going or wither on the vine. Its big subs like music, gaming, funny, can be replaced by literally any other social media next big thing to take off. What still attracts people to Reddit is the ‘oh, there’s a sub for that’ hook.

Web traffic will continue. A couple apps have already been selected(?) by reddit (or chosen to) continue with a subscription model. narwhal and I forget the other, along with reddit’s own app. There was no shortage of people mocking the protest and/or “IDK why everyone is upset, I like the Reddit App…”

I don’t care what happens, I am tired of reddit, its admins, moderators and close-minded community.

Reddit lives from it’s moderators. But nowadays a good AI might replace that, will have a rough start but gradually become better. I still believe the communities will become streamlined and heavily automoderated due to lack of human reason. That will hurt discussion, conversations and though provoking comments.

This is not really possible. How is AI going to moderate small communities? It needs to know what kind of moderator decisions humans make in order to “learn” how to make those decisions but there’s not enough data for smaller communities. It’s also not useful for moderating video content, content that requires intelligence to get to (e.g. paywalled articles you have to learn how to get around). It would be very expensive to download every PDF submitted to some academic subreddit, and figure out if it is relevant, etc.

AI can only make a good spam filter, but not much more.

I deleted my account today, and couldn’t care less what occurs with it tomorrow. I’m not going back.