I’ve never been sentimental about a social media site but it’s sad for me to see reddit so clearly killing itself. Pushshift is already banned and Apollo is soon to follow. Reddit will either pivot fully to a mainstream audience or die out. It’s just sad for me to see it doing it to itself.
Been on Reddit for 15 years. Will probably hang on to a few communities that only exist there for a while longer.
I was sad and sentimental about it when it started dying years ago. The desperate “must grow until implode” path that all corporate owned platforms follow, is inevitable. At some point it’ll suck too much for you to tolerate.
Make a first-party mobile app for a site that would be fine on web. Sell premium subscriptions. Sell microtransactions. Insert ads. Insert more ads. Insert ads inbetween content. Make the ads look like content. Put usability features behind Premium subscription and forbid integrations that do similar things. Try to be tiktok? Try to be a social network. Short videos! Try to be Youtube? Try to be Twitch!