While you’re absolutely correct, keep in mind Reddit heavily relies on a smaller number of people dedicated to creating the communities, the rules, moderating, engaging users, fixing issues.
Sure, the large number of people from all across the world interacting and that are missing from Lemmy is a major letdown… But can Reddit sustain itself for another decade while actively pushing away the dedicated moderators? The community creators? The people carefully writing full blown wikis? Can they keep their userbase by slowly filling their app with bad quality clones of services like TikTok, NFTs, Twitter Spaces? How many ads will people tolerate? How many times can Reddit push “random” livestreams to people’s feeds and remove communities they dislike?
It won’t be today, and it won’t be thanks to the blackouts… But Reddit is already done, it just takes a while to fully halt a moving train even after the engine collapses.
While you’re absolutely correct, keep in mind Reddit heavily relies on a smaller number of people dedicated to creating the communities, the rules, moderating, engaging users, fixing issues.
Sure, the large number of people from all across the world interacting and that are missing from Lemmy is a major letdown… But can Reddit sustain itself for another decade while actively pushing away the dedicated moderators? The community creators? The people carefully writing full blown wikis? Can they keep their userbase by slowly filling their app with bad quality clones of services like TikTok, NFTs, Twitter Spaces? How many ads will people tolerate? How many times can Reddit push “random” livestreams to people’s feeds and remove communities they dislike?
It won’t be today, and it won’t be thanks to the blackouts… But Reddit is already done, it just takes a while to fully halt a moving train even after the engine collapses.