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We just don't smell the rot yet. It's not about the actual body (website) and the name. It is about the spirit, the personality. And that has been compromised and killed off because of factors one could call enshittification or whatever. Digg and Tumblr still exist, at least in name, but not in spirit. I think Reddit has past that threshold. It will be a slow death and I am not sure the fediverse will fill the void it leaves behind. But I do think and believe communities will never sustain on venture capital.

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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] A_Toasty_Strudel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I definitely feel like the user base responsible for making OC on reddit are the type that bailed on reddit during the shutdown. With a huge amount of their content creators for the platform gone, it's gonna be even more recycled garbage.

[–] Paradox@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

And the users left behind, particularly those that whined about the mods shutting stuff down, are never creators. They're just consumers, useless eaters. You can tell because their umbrage wasn't directed at the reddit administration, but was directed at the mods, who dared to interrupt their feeding sessions.

[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Frankly, it's been rotting for years and years. Us users were simply too invested in the rotting corpse to give up on it and kept pumping it with morphine and penicillin.

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Great way to put it. Reminds me of 40k lore. Does that make Steve Huffman the God-Emperor?

[–] EshuMarneedi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The website feels dead already. Like, the comments are more empty, there are less memes in tech-heavy subreddits, etc. The nerds have left.

[–] niktemadur@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile, here in the Fediverse I've been seeing a lot of impressively creative memes. I don't know if they're originating here, or if they're copy-pasted from elsewhere, but I'm comfortable here where memes are concerned.

Idk if I became biased after this whole shitstorm, but looks like there are more low effort reposts than before and even less effort in the comments.
Also, idk if it's because I have a lot of subs blocked, but subs like 'am I ugly' gets so many low hanging fruits, to the point that it looks like bots posting.

[–] niktemadur@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit looking like Tik Tok, which is looking more like Facebook, which wants to look like Instagram... and what's that over there? Oh look, it's Twitter, spooning glue with its' hand and putting it in its' mouth.

[–] Fal@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago

Wow. Never seen anyone use the wrong "its" quite that wrong

[–] dynamojoe@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

fark.com is another site that still exists.

It's kinda weird going back there, same in jokes that I remember from before but it's like 15 years later. Reddit, on the other hand, did change a lot over the years, for better and worse. Though I do wonder how much of that was natural and how much was manipulation from political groups and/or propaganda teams from various countries from all sides of all divides.

[–] polizeros@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As with Twitter, there probably won't be just one replacement. Instead, we'll all use multiple platforms.

Meanwhile, among all this drama and chaos, TikTok just keep growing...

[–] StealthToad@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How many times was TikTok supposed to have been banned now?

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still not putting that shit in my phone

[–] Sheltac@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I managed to get most of my family to remove it. Now they just watch instagram reels, which I kinda feel is a step sideways.

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It "died" a couple years ago when it became closed-source.

[–] Hopalong@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I remember when their canary went away and everyone said it was the end of reddit lol.