The Reddit was my go to. The place for advice. I learned a lot there.

But now, it’s all John Oliver.

Usually I wouldn’t complain about John Oliver. But this shit is getting ANNOYING. I WANNA LEARN ABOUT PIRACY GODDAMNIT. If a good service is shut down, I wouldn’t be able to hear about it if it wasn’t for you guys. If a website had a virus problem. If I was having trouble. Thank whoever made this website and this community. You’re our only hope.

  • TWeaK@lemm.ee
    7·
    2 years ago

    It depends which “interesting people” you’re talking about. I’d say investors like Peter Thiel (*spits on the ground) leaving the company were a key sign that it’s past its prime.

    For reddit, it doesn’t need to be a middle finger from everyone. It needs to be some critical mass - and not even a critical mass of users, but of key content creators. However, all the bots and fake stories on reddit will likely help it limp on a while longer.

    • LoFi-Enchilada@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      “Key content creators” like who, specifically?

      I’ve seen this argument and I still don’t understand it. I might be wrong but do people actually believe the site was all shinny and interesting because of a group of superstar redditors who posted all the good stuff?

      Reddit has 1.660 billion monthly active users. Sure, most of them just lurk around, but everyone is replaceable: mods, “content creators”, you name it. One goes away, and 100 more are in line waiting for their chance.

      • Obi@sopuli.xyz
        5·
        2 years ago

        I’m not sure why so many people are treating this as a black or white thing. Either Reddit dies in a week or they “win”. It’s gonna take years and years for it to actually “die”, it’s just going to get shittier and shittier, while hopefully it gets better and better around here, and maybe if we want to put the optimistic hat we can even hope that the federated nature means it won’t suffer the same fate all these corporations go through.

        I agree with your point about the content creators though, like yeah it’s a small % that actually created the content, but that small % is still millions of people, not just a few superstars (unless you’re talking about the gallowboobs and other mass posters but I wouldn’t say these accounts are the ones making the good content).

        • TWeaK@lemm.ee
          2·
          2 years ago

          That’s pretty much exactly what I’m getting at. Reddit will linger on for a while, but at some point it will reach a critical mass where it will topple over.

          There’s no black or white, but a sliding scale. Reddit has been well balanced, but now it is quite heavily imbalanced, and that will only get worse until it falls.

        • LoFi-Enchilada@kbin.social
          1·
          2 years ago

          That’s exactly what I’m trying to say.

          This all started because OP thanked God for this space to replace r/piracy, now that the subreddit is a meme cesspool, and a dude came to claim “people like him are going to make Reddit win”.

          These people don’t realize we are the 0.01% of Reddit’s users, and two pathetic days of “blackout”, a week of memes and a couple of rogue mods isn’t this brave, heroic, mass-scale social movement that will suddenly kill Reddit overnight. Reddit will keep growing both in users and financially, and it’ll need years of hundreds of thousands of people ditching the site and replacing it with something else PERMANENTLY, for them to even feel a hit.

          So regarding people’s comments about Reddit already being doomed and an inch away from disappearing because some of us left, the reality is that it’s exactly the opposite. They don’t need us to “win” which for them is to keep growing.