“Losing free labor will hurt our business”
-signed, the plantation owner who made $193,000,000 last year
Nothing can really kill reddit, but as far as content goes I expect it will follow the same path facebook did where the only people who eventually really interact on it will be conspiracy theorists and moms.
I really don’t know what could kill Reddit at this point. It’s so different now with Reddit’s new UI, the awards, blocking VPN connections, and Reddit licensing user content for AI training. We saw how things went with the blackout and how so many people caved instantly and were willing to fill the roles of the people that left once subreddits were forced back open.
Maybe blocking NSFW content or requiring users to verify their age?
Can’t kill what is already dead.
The communities are all but gone.
The signal to noise ratio is the worst it’s ever been.
Most subs are barely moderated. Actual mod involvement (as opposed to Automod) is low.
Reddit now openly collects and sells user data.
The Reddit we knew is dead and gone.
The only place I’ve seen that still has some life and great energy is r/comics. If lemmy’s version(s) of that group could attract the regular content creators I wouldn’t have any other reason to visit reddit.
I modded a few subreddits but left it all behind
I just remembered the other day I’m listed as the only moderator of a subreddit with a couple thousand users and haven’t done anything for it in about a year.
Me too. I had really hoped more mods would move their communities to a Lemmy instance and promote it on Reddit but that’s largely not the case.
“Could hurt its business”
Apparently we didn’t do much. I’m just happy to be on Lemmy so I don’t have to care.
Lol yeah, tired of people coming over here, lurking (not posting or commenting), and complaining there isn’t much content to consume.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The company also said that bad publicity and media coverage, such as the kind that stemmed from the API protests, could be a risk to Reddit’s success.
The Form S-1 said bad PR around Reddit, including its practices, prices, and mods, “could adversely affect the size, demographics, engagement, and loyalty of our user base,” adding:
Reddit’s filing also said that negative publicity and moderators disrupting the normal operation of subreddits could hurt user growth and engagement goals.
Reddit’s filing discusses losing moderators as a business risk and notes how important third-party tools are in maintaining mods:
Any disruption to, or lack of availability of, these third-party tools could harm our moderators’ ability to review content and enforce community rules.
Nondisclosure agreement requirements and the lack of a finalized developer platform also drive uncertainty around the longevity of the third-party Reddit app ecosystem, according to devs Ars spoke with this year.
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Good, it’s the only thing they can do.
Reverse psychology Uno card attempt to get any remaining mod or community they don’t control to out themselves as a risk and be ousted, imo.
One of the primary reasons Reddit cited for its API rule changes was LLMs profiting off its data for free.
Its data? Seems to me that most of that “data” was actually generated by users. Which Reddit, in turn, profited off for free.
Reddit needs to die
