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Minecraft's devs exit 7M-strong subreddit after Reddit's crackdown on protest

• add-sub-mul-div 3y ago
  Using Reddit/Twitter at this point is like staying on Facebook just as early abandoners were realizing it's only for old people, or staying on Craigslist as early abandoners realized it would never solve spam and each of its categories was starting to have better offerings from vertical specific startups. Facebook and Craigslist are still around, just like Reddit/Twitter will still be in 5 years. But they'll be empty shells.
  • brucethemoose2 3y ago
    But will Reddit still be "significant" like Facebook? The search back catalog is getting perforated by account deletion, and new Reddit content heavily relies on community mods and power users whereas Facebook does not.
    • LexiMax 3y ago
      I don't think so. Reddit has never been a huge moneymaker like Facebook, and its recent decisions seem very short-sighted and designed to make the site look appealing for the IPO, and who cares what happens after that. I think it's more likely that it enters a Tumblr/Myspace-esque "dead mall" twilight or a Twitter-esque death spiral.
    • add-sub-mul-div 3y ago
      Its content will suffer, yeah. It's already kind of a cesspool and the new generation of mods will have less power and less engagement. I think we'll stop revering its content so much but it's too big to go away completely. It doesn't have the size or momentum of Facebook to remain that relevant, but I still can't see average people abandoning it anytime soon either.