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Reddit is the new FaceBook. People won’t leave so much as younger people will use the next thing.
Facebook is still around in a somewhat diminished form. I expect Reddit will persist, too.
Facebook only persists because of its marketplace service. Take that away and it would be as alive as myspace.
Reddit is quite literally Facebook these days. I really think most of the userbase right now is the people who started using the Facebook app on their phone thinking that's what the internet is. Finally after much inertia they've ventured over to the reddit app to explore another part of this "internet" thing.
So many users call subreddits "groups" because that's the colloquialism they brought over from Facebook. They don't know what to call subreddits. So they fumble around different phrasing. They say things like "this group", "this reddit", "this r". Yet never seem to come around to understanding it's called subreddit. It's a sign of how the long standing tradition of new users adopting local culture is no longer a thing. New users come in and ignore everything while doing whatever the fuck. God forbid they start getting mod power after some exodus cause then the subreddit is definitely done for.
Quite frankly it's full of idiots. Not the usual reddit idiot of past years. Reddit's current userbase is a whole other beast right now. So many users seemingly never used technology in their life before. They can't even reply to correct comments. People are posting top level comments instead of replying to the proper one. A concerning amount of people think it's a flat, time sorted message board. They can't wrap their head around the technical mechanics of a comment section.
Worst of all they have zero internet literacy. Zero idea of internet lore. It's like talking to my grandparents about technology. They have no idea about anything.
Nobody can speak or understand when I reference internet history either. Pretty rare to find anyone anymore that can reply knowing what I'm talking about when making historical internet references that any adult should be able to know about.
A concerning trend I've noticed is that often it will be a right wing troll that comes in to lie whenever mentioning their sordid history of right wing hate and violence on the internet. Must be one of the troll farms that actively flood the zone with shit. For some reason people are so eager to believe the lies. This rant is kind of going off topic now anyways.
Oh yeah and seemingly a lot of people are dictating their reddit replies. That's just bizarre to me but okay. I guess it makes sense why internet posting has changed so much. In particular, walls of text (such as this) aren't common anymore. Nobody does brain dumps anymore. Because to them, this reply would be said out loud into my phone like some lunatic instead of typing out a string of thoughts real quick.
Could just be an old stickler (but probably not really).
More disjointed remarks:
Do you remember when people used to try to educate others on the proper use of the downvote?
People seem to think reddit invented threaded messages or something.
Redditors have been professional point-missers for years (bluh bluh you can't compare those two things because they are not the same thing bluhb), but the reading comprehension is just aggressively bad this decade. Which is to say it seems to have reached normie levels of knee-jerk emotional reactions to keywords and shitty heuristics about which team you're on.
At the same time, I continue to have good experiences of coming across people I can see eye-to-eye with on something, or being able to civilly and constructively navigate a disagreement. Sometimes it feels like those experiences are happening more in recent years than was usual. And I distinctly recall a super vitriolic era in reddit comment debate (as it were). Even as the normism becomes impossible not to notice, it remains possible to find something decent. Assuming it's not a well-tuned LLM.
Back in my day, a wall of text was when someone filled the entire height of the screen (on a desktop PC monitor, obviously) without using any paragraph breaks. Now one good paragraph is "omg muh wall of text" and you'll get the "tl;dr" or "ain't reading allat" in response to a comment that amounts to less than a 90-second read even at the embarrassingly slow average adult reading speed.
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Honestly. i think Facebook only still exists because of Marketplace.