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.

  • TheSaneWriter@vlemmy.net
    8·
    2 years ago

    Reddit isn’t going to win or lose, it already lost. It has never been profitable, has been outcompeted by Instagram and TikTok, and was already showing signs of failure. The one thing that they had going for them was their relationship with the community, and they couldn’t even maintain that. At this point Reddit is a sinking ship, average people will move on to the next big thing and the power users will move to other places they can get their content seen, and Reddit may not be in the grave but they’ve already dug it and they are on the edge.

    • Obi@sopuli.xyz
      5·
      2 years ago

      Yeah this current chain of events is just making a lot more people open their eyes. Even me, deep down I already knew Reddit was going down the drain for a long time already, but especially within my RiF and curated feed, I was shielded from most of it. Now the mask is coming off and everyone can see it for what it is, another corporation that’s going to do whatever it takes to squeeze the last penny. I feel sad, I’ll miss my old Reddit, but it’s the cycle of life. The king is dead, long live the king!

    • LoFi-Enchilada@kbin.social
      12·
      2 years ago

      Right.

      So according to your detailed timeline, when is Reddit going to see a decline in new users and total monthly users, because it has only went up and up with no signs of stopping. Is that part of being on the edge of their grave, or just an unexplainable anomaly?

      Also, neither TikTok or Instagram are discussion forums. TikTok is a short-video platform and instagram is a photo sharing platform. Your comparison is like saying McDonald’s outcompeted Ticketmaster.

      • CaptainApathetic@rustyshackleford.cfd
        3·
        2 years ago

        If you haven’t noticed, reddit has a MASSIVE bot problem, I’d wager at least 1/3 of the posts on r/all are from repost bots and copy pased comments from bots probably about the same. How can you be sure these numbers are are even from real users?