Yeah I completely wiped my account and don't post anymore but I still browse the site because it's just a hard resource to replace overnight. But if they kill off old.reddit it's gonna be a lot easier to wean off of it. Killing Apollo has cut my usage back considerably as I no longer use Reddit on mobile.
So I think killing old.reddit will be a big step as will them seeking more invasive ways to pump revenue. It's all downhill for that site from here out as far as I see it.
I don't really agree. The thing is that Twitter is absolutely dogshit now for even regular old people. It's chock full of rightwing bullshit and misinfo now and only premium users float to the top of comment threads and that filters for some of the worst people on the platform. It's a majorly degraded experience. Twitter is also more of the moment and doesn't so much serve as a library of archival information well categorized into subreddits.
Reddit on the other hand has pissed a lot of people off a lot but the average person is at the most a little annoyed and just kept using the site. And it's still got 10+ years of backlogged content on it and tons of subreddits.
Also when someone leaves Twitter it's like shutting down a subreddit in a way. So as more significant people leave, more people have a reason to also leave. Nobody can unilaterally shut down a popular subreddit in the same way that a really popular twitter user can unilaterally pull up stakes and move elsewhere. They'll just open that sub back up and cram in new scab mods.
Point of the above is that Reddit's decline is nowhere near as far as Twitter yet and it has a lot of stored value and built up communities that cannot be replaced overnight. That will take years.
Yeah I expect the same thing to happen. Reddit's gonna keep pissing users off as they race for their IPO and so this will happen in waves. And when Reddit goes public and needs to start MAKING BIG NUMBER GO UP, the site is really gonna change and people are not going to like it.
Meanwhile the Fediverse and its lack of profit motivation, algorithms, and advertising is going to start looking real appealing.
It might take years. But it does feel like the Fediverse is holding on and has what it takes to make it on the long term.
The number of servers going down was an obvious eventuality. The actual work and cost involved running an instance is a lot heavier than many people would expect the minute said instance starts scaling up.
And almost nobody wants to put in the effort to run a instance just for themselves either and they'd also have to worry about all the stuff that goes with federating. Doesn't make sense for most.
I was fine paying the premium light subscription price and now they're killing it and forcing me off that plan and to pay 50% more to add features I 100% don't use and don't want to use. And of course they'll just jack up the price again in 6-12 months because it's never enough.
I just loaded the site to see for myself and the whole front page is literally all illustrations of naked children or children being fucked by adult characters.
You can mince words about what that content is all you want but it's fucking cartoon child porn plain and simple.
I was honestly surprised it held out as long as it did
Such fucking bullshit tabs are policed and paywalled now. It was a free for all 20 years ago and it made bigger fans out of the people consuming that content.
BIG NUMBER MUST GO UP
Season 4 actually had a lot of good stuff going on with it. I was real salty they never got to properly end the show.