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Well, for one, they're the sole value prop for the site. They generate, rank, and curate the content in concert with mods and admins.
by andrewstuart2 3y ago
Well, for one, they're the sole value prop for the site. They generate, rank, and curate the content in concert with mods and admins.
- have_faith 3y agoWhy don't the users go and do that somewhere else? genuine question, I don't use Reddit.
- andrewstuart2 3y agoI think that's the emerging plan, yes.
- pavel_lishin 3y agoNetwork & lock-in effects. It's pretty difficult to coordinate moving even dozens of people in a community to a new place; subreddits can have hundreds, thousands, even hundreds of thousands. There's not a particularly great way to move, for example, r/askhistorians elsewhere and ask people to follow. There will be a tremendous drop-off, as well as loss of historical (hah) posts, community knowledge, etc., etc. But also: yeah, users will probably end up going somewhere else. It'll be a diaspora; Reddit arguably prospered because Digg's users migrated there en mass after the redesign fiasco. Tumblr and Twitter have been seeing migration waves back and forth. Other communities will come, and grow - but it won't just be a "move".
- grumple 3y agoThey did before, they are now, and they will after. Reddit contends with Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, blogs, etc. We're doing it right here ourselves.
- bee_rider 3y agoSeems like they might. The weird/confusing thing is that Reddit seems to be doing their best to incentivize them to.