What do you think?

  • Landmammals@lemmy.world
    53·
    2 years ago

    They don’t care. Reddit is turning into an AI wasteland. Human visitors will either be entertained by AI generated content, or training the AI model.

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
      121·
      2 years ago

      This, except reddit popularity droping.

      Reddit is mainstream now. The reason they will kill old reddit is because they can. You have to understand that reddit has outgrown its initial audiance. In fact, us leaving is probably saving reddit money because we didnt consume ads. Kids these days use reddit through the main app and are used to consuming tons of ads in all their social apps.

      Redsit will “die” in spirit but I’m 100% it won’t go away. The way Lemmy keeps predicting.

        • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
          1·
          2 years ago

          But that’s the thing. The new users arr mostly kids on their phones. Most users now browser reddit through the official app. So almost no one is blocking ads. It doesnt even matter if the content is trash or reposts or bots. People love that. That sort of content is immensely successful on other sites like instagram. Reddit will just become another content farm with no soul that prints money.

  • AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
    281·
    2 years ago

    It’s already dead for me. It used to be the only way I could access random reddit links with my VPN, now it too gives that stupid rejection page.

    So, reddit was dead to me, but now it’s extra dead to me because I’m not disabling my VPN just to view some link. If friends send me a reddit link, I’ll just ask for a screenshot.

    • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
      191·
      2 years ago

      Ooh shit, this is a good take! Tiktok needs to change ownership to an American company. I could see them using Reddit as a kind of masquerade it or shell company, where they put all the legal and geographical ownership under the Reddit name, but really all the decisions (for both platforms) are being made by the TikTok owners.

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    2 years ago

    Has spaz sold it all and disappeared yet? I figured it was a stage coach robbery situation. Reddit died June 10th according to my whitelist firewall. The microbes don’t die at the same time as the cadaver, but the survivors move on to a new host fast.

    • roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      6·
      2 years ago

      Are his shares restricted? The way I understand it, usually insiders aren’t allowed to sell until some time after the IPO.

      • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
        62·
        2 years ago

        He already sold over 500.000 shares, same as his CFO iirc. Classic pump and dump. Reddit is 25% down, below initial value. From an article I read today.

  • Yaztromo@lemmy.world
    21·
    2 years ago

    I feel like they’re not going to outright kill it, but quill instead let it wither on the vine; aka die the death of a thousands cuts.

    There will likely be more new functionality that won’t be backported. Things that work okay now will stop functioning correctly. They’ll just stop maintenance and wait for everyone to leave — when it does get shut down, it will happen with a whimper rather than a bang.