I can see where you are coming from. At least partially - my desire to see people abandon Spez’ Reddit is due to me wanting to see it wither and die already. I am sure that it will at some point, but the sooner the better IMO.
Can totally relate. But apparently that is not how platforms die. They just fall out of relevance. There is a site that gets referenced a lot which used to be relevant but lost touch and got irrelevant. It didn’t shut down until today but it has like 5 users. That’s probably how Reddit is gonna go. Or they pivot and make it more like Quora. Lets see.
Yeah, most platforms never fully die, they rather turn “undead” in a certain way. They become shadows of their former selves, still limping along because someone is still making money with them somehow. Personally I think that such sites are as good as dead. No matter if the servers are still running.
And yes, I think what you describe will be the likely endpoint of Reddit. It will probably change hands a few times in the meantime as investors attempt to wring the last few bucks out of it before most of the users are gone.
I agree that this is likely the future. I really hope we can extract most of the data until it eventually deletes lots of it. Most obscure things, from legal gray areas to just very banal things would likely get lost since reddit had a way of making people have fun populating a subreddit for say, r/bitchimabus.
I can see where you are coming from. At least partially - my desire to see people abandon Spez’ Reddit is due to me wanting to see it wither and die already. I am sure that it will at some point, but the sooner the better IMO.
Can totally relate. But apparently that is not how platforms die. They just fall out of relevance. There is a site that gets referenced a lot which used to be relevant but lost touch and got irrelevant. It didn’t shut down until today but it has like 5 users. That’s probably how Reddit is gonna go. Or they pivot and make it more like Quora. Lets see.
Yeah, most platforms never fully die, they rather turn “undead” in a certain way. They become shadows of their former selves, still limping along because someone is still making money with them somehow. Personally I think that such sites are as good as dead. No matter if the servers are still running.
And yes, I think what you describe will be the likely endpoint of Reddit. It will probably change hands a few times in the meantime as investors attempt to wring the last few bucks out of it before most of the users are gone.
I agree that this is likely the future. I really hope we can extract most of the data until it eventually deletes lots of it. Most obscure things, from legal gray areas to just very banal things would likely get lost since reddit had a way of making people have fun populating a subreddit for say, r/bitchimabus.