Can Reddit survive as its volunteer workforce close down subreddits and walk away from the site in protest at the management's new policies?

Can Reddit survive as its volunteer workforce close down subreddits and walk away from the site in protest at the management’s new policies?

  • lynny@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    We can only hope.

    I want Reddit to bugger off as much as the next person, but I don’t think it’s going to die. Even Tumblr didn’t truly die.

    • Ghostface@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      What do you consider dead? If relevant is the deciding factor then yeah, Tumblr, Digg, Yahoo are dead.

      The key being how much of reddit functioned off of their invisible workforce? How much of their app will still use after api useful ness has dried out.

      Give it till Nov

    • pacology@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      It will take Reddit a long time to die but it’s completely possible to piss off the minority that keeps it going which will result it to effectively die.

  • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    I think federation is the path forward. It’s quite obvious to me. I’m not too too smart, but my gut is usually pretty accurate. Community funded, open source and decentralization is the only way we are gonna make it past the Fermi paradox imo, in all facets of life, including the internet, and especially social media.

    The framework for the feddiverse is so organic that it just makes sense. It’s good shit.

    • cerevant@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      We’ve shown that it works for e-mail, it works for the web, it works for phones…

      The age of monolithic web services is likely coming to an end, certainly for social media. The “free until we dominate the space, then enshitify” business model is proven not to work. Anyone who continues to invest in it is a fool.

      • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I agree. People starting to realize if we work together we can have the things we want without a central figurehead. Social media especially cause it’s literally just us.

  • _Hyperion@kbin.social
    6·
    1 year ago

    Reddit will become pointless sooner or later but ipo will happen and Huffman will make his dough
    Funny as 1700s fashion and john Oliver’s in the subs people need to gtfo asap if they don’t agree with what Reddit is becoming

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      but ipo will happen and Huffman will make his dough

      What I don’t understand is, what idiots are going to buy the shares with all this bad press? Isn’t all this nonsense tanking the IPO value?

      • XeroxCool@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        If it’s important enough to talk about, it’s big enough to throw money at. Or something.

  • TragicNotCute@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Great piece and a sneaky little beehaw link at the end. I would have rather seen it be a Lemmy.world link instead, but oh well.

  • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said Reddit would start charging for using its application programming interface (API) because AI companies, such as Google and OpenAI, had been using the site’s data to train their large language models…

    This is so strange to me. Doesn’t he know that they already scraped the site? That ship has sailed. They don’t need to continually scrape reddit. You don’t back an LLM with a live website, you use an offline repo of the data.

    • Syanide@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      They keep scraping all new entries for up-to-date LLM’s, it’s on going battle who has best models.