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All you have to do is look at what every other social media platform has done, which is devolve into an infinite scroll of the following: - Kitty/puppy videos

All you have to do is look at what every other social media platform has done, which is devolve into an infinite scroll of the following: - Kitty/puppy videos - Exotic street food - girls with shorts/leggings showing buttcrack or cameltoe acting oblivious or holding a product (i.e. using ambiguous sexuality to sell something) - Someone doing some kind of weird elaborate craft as a form of spectacle - Twerking or faux-twerking dances - A person being kind to the homeless - "you won't believe" compilations of various things like near car accidents - Crazy/dangerous parkour - Some green smoothie brand targeted at young people doing yoga It's no wonder Reddit has been moving in this direction as well. People eat this shit up, they're more profitable as advertisements, require way less moderation, and are overall less of a hassle than hosting discussions.

Delphiza 3y ago
...and reviews. The amount that the market pays to inject adverts into youtube product reviews versus 'proper' content is staggering. A good guitarist is better doing a review on headphones, than actually playing a guitar. A runner is better doing a review on the latest Nikes rather than giving training advice.
- ravenstine 3y ago
  Can't believe I forgot that one!
raverbashing 3y ago
You're right about people eating this shit up of course But the question is if people will willingly remain on a Reddit which is just like Tiktok or YT shorts or Instagram, etc and has no differentiator Especially with their lousy mobile experience
- ugjka 3y ago
  If there was a clear successor existing with a team that could scale fast, there wouldn't be a Reddit strike but a Reddit exodus. Lemmy and other garbage is not it...
  - ben_w 3y ago
    So, dumb question incoming: How hard would it be to make a thing with the same API as Reddit so the apps that are currently about to shut down can instead change base domain and keep going? Including existing OSS servers, assuming there already is some (complete!) open source one somewhere — I can google for the attempts ("plebbit" was submitted here for discussion only last week) but I can't trivially tell if they're any good.
    - MiguelX413 3y ago
      Iirc such things already exist.
    - clnq 3y ago
      Probably not hard to write an adapter at all. But it's not the API that made these apps popular and appealing. It's the Reddit community. The apps would write their own adapters if there was an alternative social media website with this community.
      - raverbashing 3y ago
        If you flipped the switch on the apps, you'd have your community in no time
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- ravenstine 3y ago
  Though I'm not certain, my guess is Reddit is calling everyone's bluff; they've run the numbers and know that the long game is in their favor if they Tiktokify. Every social media platform eventually declines, and they must know that they have to adapt-or-die to maintain a similar rate of growth.
ggregoire 3y ago
You forgot: - million dollars mansions tours - asking strangers in the street how much is their rent or what's their salary - asking strangers in the street to do X for money (e.g. do 10 pull ups for $100) - tourism videos in "dangerous" places such as South America, Africa, Middle Orient, East Europe, Asia (i.e. everywhere not in NA and West Europe) - silent walking/driving 4K videos in Japan/China/South Korea - "one day in the life of a programmer/student/[whatever] at [prestigious company/college name]" videos, showing a person waking up, taking a shower, eating breakfast, etc.
- asddubs 3y ago
  -A stickman comic which just has the stickman saying something people on reddit agree with instead of a joke
qingcharles 3y ago
*writes down ideas for his next TikTok*

Delphiza 3y ago

...and reviews. The amount that the market pays to inject adverts into youtube product reviews versus 'proper' content is staggering. A good guitarist is better doing a review on headphones, than actually playing a guitar. A runner is better doing a review on the latest Nikes rather than giving training advice.

ravenstine 3y ago
Can't believe I forgot that one!

raverbashing 3y ago

You're right about people eating this shit up of course But the question is if people will willingly remain on a Reddit which is just like Tiktok or YT shorts or Instagram, etc and has no differentiator Especially with their lousy mobile experience

ugjka 3y ago
If there was a clear successor existing with a team that could scale fast, there wouldn't be a Reddit strike but a Reddit exodus. Lemmy and other garbage is not it...
- ben_w 3y ago
  So, dumb question incoming: How hard would it be to make a thing with the same API as Reddit so the apps that are currently about to shut down can instead change base domain and keep going? Including existing OSS servers, assuming there already is some (complete!) open source one somewhere — I can google for the attempts ("plebbit" was submitted here for discussion only last week) but I can't trivially tell if they're any good.
  - MiguelX413 3y ago
    Iirc such things already exist.
  - clnq 3y ago
    Probably not hard to write an adapter at all. But it's not the API that made these apps popular and appealing. It's the Reddit community. The apps would write their own adapters if there was an alternative social media website with this community.
    - raverbashing 3y ago
      If you flipped the switch on the apps, you'd have your community in no time
- deleted 3y ago
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ravenstine 3y ago
Though I'm not certain, my guess is Reddit is calling everyone's bluff; they've run the numbers and know that the long game is in their favor if they Tiktokify. Every social media platform eventually declines, and they must know that they have to adapt-or-die to maintain a similar rate of growth.

ggregoire 3y ago

You forgot: - million dollars mansions tours - asking strangers in the street how much is their rent or what's their salary - asking strangers in the street to do X for money (e.g. do 10 pull ups for $100) - tourism videos in "dangerous" places such as South America, Africa, Middle Orient, East Europe, Asia (i.e. everywhere not in NA and West Europe) - silent walking/driving 4K videos in Japan/China/South Korea - "one day in the life of a programmer/student/[whatever] at [prestigious company/college name]" videos, showing a person waking up, taking a shower, eating breakfast, etc.

asddubs 3y ago
-A stickman comic which just has the stickman saying something people on reddit agree with instead of a joke

qingcharles 3y ago

*writes down ideas for his next TikTok*