• R0cket_M00se
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    1822 years ago

    This is two months old and a report about the exodus that’s already happened.

    Reddit didn’t die, it probably won’t anytime soon.

    • mrbubblesort
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      742 years ago

      Facebook never “died”, but no one goes there anymore either. Reddit will be the same.

        • SokathHisEyesOpen
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          32 years ago

          And then you can’t even do that because Zuck filled the feed with 99% ads and “recommended” groups. Sure, there’s a friend’s feed now, but it doesn’t load 95% of the time. Facebook isn’t dead because people didn’t like the site, Facebook is dead because Zuckerfuck drove a spike through its heart and then lit the corpse on fire after dousing it with gasoline.

    • @db2@sopuli.xyz
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      212 years ago

      Malls are still around in some places too, but nothing in there is worth going to. Maybe Mall of America if you want to chance getting stabbed or shot, other than that they’re either glorified office space or entirely abandoned. But, like reddit, they’re still technically there.

      • JustinHanaganOP
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        122 years ago

        Exactly. From the article:

        As far as Reddit’s fate is concerned I predict that what will happen to it is the same thing that is happening to Twitter and has already happened to Facebook and frankly, actual shopping malls. The business side of things will churn along divorced from the content which will become ever more generic and culturally irrelevant. The users who stay on Reddit will be of the unadventurous variety, not inclined to make waves or analyze their habits.

      • @EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        That’s just a horrible analogy. Yes malls are basically dead but still technically there. Reddit is just as popular and active as it has ever been. Sure some people, like us, left. The vast majority stayed.

        The ‘mass exodus’ never happened. The entirety of lemmy put together is the size of a small niche sub barely anyone actually knows about.

      • @lingh0e@lemmy.film
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        22 years ago

        The mall pictured in the article, Rolling Acres Mall in Akron OH, was the largest of three indoor shopping malls in the greater Akron area. I don’t know if you’ve ever been to Akron, but we didn’t need three goddamn indoor shopping malls. We’re down to just one now, which seems appropriate.

    • @Blastasaurus@lemm.ee
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      132 years ago

      Who knows. Could be the new Facebook. Feel like that shit fell off pretty fast. Went from everyone on the planet using it to only your weird uncle pretty quickly.

    • @TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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      92 years ago

      Dying or not, their leadership made clear the plan is full steam towards enshittification and monetization, so leaving early is for the best.

    • Ostermac
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      92 years ago

      Reddit has really declined after the blackout, some subs are not even posting anything usefull or just trolling. My home subs on reddit dies out after i scroll past 500, no more new or upvoted content.

    • meseek #2982
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      12 years ago

      About as long as a seagull pecking away at a whale carcass. It certainly didn’t help them but it would take Musk level of stupid to end them.