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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
by 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 agoIf 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 agoSo, 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 agoIirc such things already exist.
- clnq 3y agoProbably 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 agoIf you flipped the switch on the apps, you'd have your community in no time
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- ravenstine 3y agoThough 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.