In the last 3 days I’ve been paying attention to r/all, expecting several posts about it and…

Yeah

Wasn’t expecting the website to literally shut down nor to monopolize r/all, because 3rd party users are the minority, but I hoped for more than whatever this was.

At least there’s a silver lining, I discovered new alternatives that have healthier communities

  • Kichae@kbin.social
    2·
    2 years ago

    Reddit isn’t going to disappear, but that doesn’t mean it won’t die. Going public will kill Reddit. The parent company isn’t profitable, and the product isn’t profitable, and public investors will only tolerate that if growth suggests future gains.

    Those future gains will be had by strangling Reddit and twisting its corpse into something much less useful, interesting, and fun.

    Reddit’s animated corpse will carry on for years, but that IPO will be a poisoned pill for what we know and recognize as Reddit.

    • Gabbro@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      So how do we stop that happening here? Do we just bounce between admins as they eventually can’t pay for their servers?