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Reddit is the flavor of the month. It's been a long month, but before Reddit there was digg, kuro5hin, plastic, something awful, slashdot. Myspace was the flav
by hadlock 7y ago
Reddit is the flavor of the month. It's been a long month, but before Reddit there was digg, kuro5hin, plastic, something awful, slashdot.
Myspace was the flavor of the month. Now it is facebook/imgur/snapchat. But before it was friendster, AIM, MSN, ICQ etc. Maybe next it will be Discord or Son Of Discord.
The wheel continues to turn. I have zero faith Reddit will command the market share it does today, in 2030.
- MaxBarraclough 7y agoI wouldn't say reddit replaced Slashdot, any more than it's replaced Hacker News. Slashdot really only competes with a dozen or so subreddits, after all, not with reddit as a whole.
- dillonmckay 7y agoFriendster should have licensed their patents to Facebook, not sold them.
- KozmoNau7 7y agoSomething Awful still exists and is still very active, last time I checked.
- hadlock 7y agoYeah and in 10 years both forums will still exist. Something Awful exists and is active, but it's not in the cultural driver's seat the way it was in 2004-2009. But then Reddit (some claim, Twitter) came along and ate their lunch and they've been in the back seat for many many years with slow to no user growth.