It died in the same way FB did. Much of it is reputational damage. People will stop investing into it, including large corporations. It gets removed from brand

It died in the same way FB did. Much of it is reputational damage. People will stop investing into it, including large corporations. It gets removed from brand and PR strategy and such. Consultants who utilize it will seem out of date. Or they'll be grouped into the bunch who deal with WordPress and PHP - it's the sewage equivalent, those who do the dirty work that the white collars won't. Paradoxically, that makes it better. Facebook groups are just thriving now, like mushrooms after the rain. The old days of FB had people making meme groups so they could rebrand it into a fashion group and sell it off to be merged into an established fashion brand. Reddit just has plenty of people who would make jokes at your expense or ignore a post to be the first to make a joke and harvest lots of upvotes. It becomes more 4chan and less well, reddit, people are just more genuine. Without the people gaming these platforms, they're usually a much better place to visit. I don't visit reddit anymore though, but I might when the dust settles in a few years. A reddit-like death may be a good thing for HN. Maybe people will stop campaigning against crypto, AI, frameworks, whatever they're feeling insecure about, and just rationally discuss their interests knowing that nobody important is reading.