I was wondering if that was just my imagination. The stupid thing about all of this is it wouldn't have taken much to have avoided the whole debacle completely. Now spez has lost user's trust in the platform that took years to establish. That's not coming back any time soon.
Or he successfully got rid of the people making good content so reddit can finally be the dumpster fire it was created to be. Part of me isn't even joking. I've always wondered if reddit's goal wasn't always to be 4gag. Well it is now and it's, well not glorious but it's something.
It feels like one of those magic times users revolted (I.e. Digg), but then I look at Mastodon and Twitter and am less hopeful.
The optimistic outlook on it is that unlike Twitter the quality of content on Reddit relies on moderators who have no official capacity from the site. Twitter is moderated by people who are paid at Twitter, so moderators leaving the sub (and taking the curation the users enjoyed with them) is much more impactful.
I never "got" Twitter. I wanna shit post on a microscale.
Twitter is not social. It’s a platform for people that have large followings to get their message out. It’s why the media sort of embraced it for a time. It’s why artists and “influencers” use it. It does not matter if those folks have anything intelligent to say. In most cases it does not matter if what they say is stupidity. It will still get engagement. Reddit on the other hand is all about the topic and the quality of the post. Personalities or # of followers does not matter.
Twitter is about people, Reddit is about content.
Do you remember any nicknames or any famous Reddit users? I remember the story about the poop knife but not the nickname. I remember on lemmy the 3 day no poop challenge but not the nickname.
You’re right enough that (in my opinion anyway) your point stands, content is mostly anonymous - there is however a trivial number of Reddit famous, like u/poemforyoursprog, u/ramsesthepigeon, and u/poppinkream who I can name offhand. There are also a few active IRL celebrities, like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rick Astley.
Shittywatercolors Victoria Umm Spez? That's all I've got.
I can't remember how it was circa 2010, but it feels like it's harder to "kill" social media sites now.
Yeah, they metastasized.
50 million of users won't dissappear in a day or two. That said, I really enjoy this Fediverse and in time this comunity have the potential to impose himself as the " true open " alternative to Reddit, a bit like Linux with Windows back then.
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In danger? I'd say the content falloff has been in the midst of the spiral for months.
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