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Reddit is in danger of a death spiral (www.zdnet.com)

submitted 1 year ago by doophy@kbin.social to c/news@kbin.social

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Can Reddit survive as its volunteer workforce close down subreddits and walk away from the site in protest at the management's new policies?

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[–] DreamySweet@vlemmy.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of the mods won't want to give up the power. That's why the original "protest" was only 2 days, it was never meant to be serious. A lot of users have left to come here, but there are way more who will never leave reddit, no matter how bad it gets.

[–] rastilin@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But I bet that we're getting a much higher proportion of the users that make actual content and have real conversations. The ones that only type out two word replies or pick arguments over trivial things can stay on Reddit.

[–] DreamySweet@vlemmy.net 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, for sure. A lot of people aren't looking for actual content or discussion though, they just want their cat pics and stale repetitive jokes. The fediverse will grow but reddit isn't going isn't going to die.

[–] Bell@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

This is it exactly. The users and mods that are leaving and protesting are the ones who make the site what it is (was). Reddit corporate knows it too. If they didn't, I feel like we'd have seen some stats put out about how "these third party app users don't contribute".