Something new and better and big and reddit-like probably pops up while reddit continue with their enshittyfication, slowly but surely it will die like Digg.
*note: that new thing isn’t lemmy but something else by another big corpo, just like Bluesky.
Users migrate to Lemmy… /s
Pretty similar to what’s going on with Twitter right now.
next inline with Slashdot and digg
The ultime shitty decision they could took, like totally changing the visuals of the website(no more orange, no more gray mascot, etc…)
You mean it isn’t dead yet? Huh.
It’s the walking dead … it’s like someone with an infection that isn’t being treated and eventually will develop gangrene, lose a limb, keep living for a while and still recieve no treatment.
After the IPO, Reddit stock plummets and Steve Huffman leaves with a big payout. Reddit Inc appoints a new CEO who starts to push deeply unpopular changes in the name of turning a profit. There is a major exodus to other platforms.
Reddit goes the way of Digg v4.
If they survive IPO and the shits storm that will bring, It will be the porn ban. We all know someone with a big wallet is going to push the change eventually.
I think the new preferential treatment in Googles algo will cancel out people leaving due to content getting stale.
This is honestly what I expect to happen. Once the porn is banned, people will stop going there. It has a lot of info for obscure communities and tech communities, but eventually that will start to move to other places.
So, I guess it will slowly die out.
When the CEO gets in a tiff with Google or Microsoft and starts blocking scraping for indexers. At some point someone in charge is going to get pissed off that search engines include significant text extracts of answers baked into their results (which is valid, we really need to crack down on how abusive Google is to the internet at large) and launch a lawsuit or two to block Google from including Reddit results in responses.
Once that happens all the valuable long term information on Reddit will be lost (there’s absolutely no chance Reddit can build a decent search engine given how deeply unprofitable it is) and the site will be truly dead.
I never understood this. They were sitting on a mountain of data. It’s maybe a masters project or at maximum a PhD to build a search engine from it. That’s 60k a year, for 3 years, max. How did they have no interest in building their own search?
Reddit died, it’s a zombie propped up by tech bros like the rest of social media. The end.
I know you said it but it’s not going to die completely. Hell, MySpace is still around.
fade away quietly like Digg
Itll slowly bleed out users to a number of alternative forms of social media and become functionally irrelevant like Slashdot. Still alive but in the same way someone with most of their brain turned to fluid and kept alive on life support.
One thing I just saw is new tools for brands. This doesn’t say so, but I could imagine them allowing brands to pay to post on subreddits against the will of the moderators.
If they do that, or turn off old.reddit, I think they’ll drive away many of the core users who make communities there valuable (those who didn’t leave after the API debacle).
