At the moment my main gripe is that people still refuse to move to other platforms despite it all. I want to scream “It’s not going to get better, folks!” at them all of the time. But I am too tired to do it.
I wonder would one reason be that if “the most” of the community is there, it’s just better to be there with the folks and the content rather than take a leap to a much smaller place and feel small or lonely or something like that…
(I haven’t used kbin/lemmy for more than an hour - seeing whether this is a new place to stay)
Yes, of course. The network effect is buoying up Reddit as it is and probably will be until a critical mess of users leave it for good. Besides the obvious truth that Lemmy/Kbin are slower and that’s not what Redditors are used to who have learned to expect something new every time they update their frontpage.
The issue that I have, both there and here is the amount of ignorance, thickheadedness and sheer lazyness people have when it comes to their opinions. I know the feeling. If someone challenges your opinion, it takes some guts to discuss and maybe even change it. And if people are being dicks, I won’t budge if I‘m 100 times proven wrong, just to make them suffer. But even trying politely gets you jumped by the biggest trolls and bullies. I hate it.
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.
Same. It’s heartbreaking. But people were/are not ready/able to save it so we have to move on. As sad as it is.
At the moment my main gripe is that people still refuse to move to other platforms despite it all. I want to scream “It’s not going to get better, folks!” at them all of the time. But I am too tired to do it.
I wonder would one reason be that if “the most” of the community is there, it’s just better to be there with the folks and the content rather than take a leap to a much smaller place and feel small or lonely or something like that…
(I haven’t used kbin/lemmy for more than an hour - seeing whether this is a new place to stay)
Yes, of course. The network effect is buoying up Reddit as it is and probably will be until a critical mess of users leave it for good. Besides the obvious truth that Lemmy/Kbin are slower and that’s not what Redditors are used to who have learned to expect something new every time they update their frontpage.
The issue that I have, both there and here is the amount of ignorance, thickheadedness and sheer lazyness people have when it comes to their opinions. I know the feeling. If someone challenges your opinion, it takes some guts to discuss and maybe even change it. And if people are being dicks, I won’t budge if I‘m 100 times proven wrong, just to make them suffer. But even trying politely gets you jumped by the biggest trolls and bullies. I hate it.
So, they can kick rocks imo.
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.