Comment on Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I haven’t been back to reddit since a couple days before the protests started, when I knew reddit was going to die and switched over to Lemmy. After reading this news I finally went back today and deleted my account. What a bunch of fuckin idiots in charge over there.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 year ago
it’s not going to die, it will be kinda like Facebook is now, very slow death spiral
Cabrio@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s like saying Digg isn’t dead because the website is still there. But what was once the front page of the Internet is a forgotten footnote that now stands as a bot content farm. Reddit will go the same way.
cjsolx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Has Reddit’s popularity dipped? We know its quality dipped, but it’s probably better known now than it ever has been. Doesn’t matter how many bots there are if there are also real people there too.
Cabrio@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s been hard to tell because reddit isn’t releasing user retention statistics that are easy to find for other social media sites (minutes per user per day), also due to vote obfuscation it can be difficult to know from vote counts because they could just manipulate the bias.
There’s also a lot of established communities around media/internet personalities that are largely unaffected by the changes and unlikely to move without significant fan pressure.
But people go where the content is, last time I checked the top 5 posts on Reddit were under 30k votes and were all tiktoks. That tells me that the content creators and the progressive adaptors have all moved on already, the rest is attrition over time as the service and content continues to stagnate.
The one thing reddit has propping it up artificially is it’s remaining position as a valuable information resource particularly for niche topics and especially while the fediverse doesn’t get boosted in seo yet.
itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Maybe Elon musk can buy Reddit and further ruin it. He loves owning echo chamber bot farms, just look at the steaming pile of shit that was twitter.
Cabrio@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This isn’t far from reality. Spez has his head so far up Elon’s arse he’s wearing his face.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah that’s true, it won’t disappear anytime soon and I should have said “die for me” as I could see where it was heading. But is a zombie really alive?