I was looking at reddit today, and the front-page felt like nothing happened. I scrolled and scrolled and scrolled and clicked into comments. Everything is popping off buzzing with activity. All the subreddits I was subscribed to that went dark are now back up and business as usual.
I knew we were a minority, but I didn’t expect this level of apathy. It feels like Spez was 100% right and this did in fact blow over. What’s your take on it it? I didn’t expect Reddit to immediately be a failure, but man I guess I expected a bigger impact than that.
This is still a developing migration. There are new active users on the threadiverse that weren’t there before. The threadiverse has reached a form of critical mass where if people stick around, they can still have an enjoyable social experience without revisiting Reddit. If Reddit continues to exist, that’s fine, I guess. I can’t control what other people do. The important thing to me is that things that aren’t Reddit are becoming viable in ways they were not before. We don’t rely on this tech company anymore, we rely on ourselves.
Further, I predict that while traffic is stabilizing back to pre-protest days, that quality will continue to decline. It’s not going to be instant that Reddit dies. It’s a slow, steady, crawl into the grave for them