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Nah. A lot of power users are gone. Now it will slowly slide into irrelevance.
by x86x87 3y ago
Nah. A lot of power users are gone. Now it will slowly slide into irrelevance.
- jseliger 3y agoWe'll see. Back in 2015 I wrote about how poor moderation and moderator incentives were problems, and yet since then Reddit has kept growing: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/03/16/the-moderator-problem-how-reddit-and-related-news-sites-decline/ https://jakeseliger.com/2015/03/16/the-moderator-problem-how....
- marginalia_nu 3y agoYou can be both large and irrelevant. Facebook is perhaps the best example of this. Reddit feels headed in the same direction.
- smrtinsert 3y agoDefine irrelevant, because if it has eyeballs...
- david927 3y agoIf early adopters have moved elsewhere, and it's all late-majority, it will have the most eyeballs right before it dies out.
- x86x87 3y agoFacebook has the eyeballs. I don't think it's relevant anymore
- dymk 3y agoWhat's the criteria for relevancy, if not "do people still use it"?
- x86x87 3y agoAre you innovating? Are you top of mind for people? Is your tech transforming people's lives? I use electricity every day. Is electricity relevant in most contexts for me? Nope. I drive a car every day. Is the type of car I drive relevant in any way? Nope.
- brewdad 3y agoYour life as you know it would disappear if electricity stopped flowing tomorrow. Facebook is no longer the trendsetter but it still influences the daily lives of millions of people and will probably, once again, have a major impact on who the United States next president is. Facebook is highly relevant.
- x86x87 3y agoWould your life as you know it disappear if Facebook disappeared tomorrow? Facebook is a cancer to our society. Luckily it looks like most people moved on an now it's a ghost town.
- dymk 3y agoYou're confusing sufficient with necessary. "Your life as you know it will disappear" is an absurd necessary bar to determine if something is relevant or not. > Luckily it looks like most people moved on an now it's a ghost town. Ah, you're just unaware of Facebook's DAU/MAU trends. They're not hard to find.
- x86x87 3y agoOh wow. DAU trends! Must be legit
- ecshafer 3y agoFacebook is incredibly relevant. It probably has more impact on more people's lives than Twitter or Reddit. Facebook isn't cool anymore. But for the 30+ crowd, especially the non-college educated crowd its huge. Tons of small businesses use it to host their "websites", the community groups are huge, parents / family groups, facebook marketplace totally replaced craigslist for a lot of people.
- powera 3y agoMany of the "power users" were outright liabilities for Reddit, and they should consider their departure a good thing.
- realusername 3y agoI disagree, they had a lot power users creating the content and now it definitely dropped in quality.
- x86x87 3y agoIt depends. When your best content and the filtering of crap content comes from these power users you're in trouble when they leave.
- punkspider 3y agoReddit's Google traffic is growing at this time. The only time it was higher was in March 2022, according to SEMrush. This is because Google is assigning more weight to user-generated content, since the rise of AI-generated content, and I believe traffic will keep growing.
- PurpleRamen 3y agoNew power users will take their place. The platform is still big and fame. What we've seen is mainly a shift from old to new generation.