I'm winding down my participation. It's been a fun ride for the most part but it is really easy to get depressed reading a lot of stuff that gets posted.
Discussions tend to deteriorate quickly and quality comments with sources get buried. That isn't how it all started. I'll shut down my last account soon after overwriting and deleting all the posts.
It's fitting that Imgur is also gonna scratch all the content they have from people who never made Imgur accounts. I have a lot of tutorials, marked-up photos, etc that I used to help people thru issues on some of those niche forums involving home and auto repairs. It's good to know all that will be gone.
I'll be down to one site for online engagement and news.
How is reddit ending? In general it seems they waited for enough critical mass before instituting all the content policies that would kill smaller sites.
And while digg's implosion had reddit as an alternative, in 2023 who is the alternative to reddit?
I think the rapid decline of Twitter and the sputter of Mastodon indicates that a lot of us have realized that simply removing social media from our lives and not replacing it with anything feels pretty good.
A few years ago I used to visit Reddit a couple times every week. These days I only end up there if a google search sends me there.
the critical mass might have to do without power-users (sucks for all the subreddits people go to for technical help!) and moderators, as the api changes affect tools and apps mods use a lot.
as for implosion, it might be more of a twitter thing, slowly people will get enough and leave. sometimes you don't need a new destination, but you just stop by the site anymore.
Reddit recently announced changes to their APIs pricing and features that will probably lead to the abandonment of most third-party Reddit clients. Users of those clients are upset.
doodlebugging|2 years ago
Discussions tend to deteriorate quickly and quality comments with sources get buried. That isn't how it all started. I'll shut down my last account soon after overwriting and deleting all the posts.
It's fitting that Imgur is also gonna scratch all the content they have from people who never made Imgur accounts. I have a lot of tutorials, marked-up photos, etc that I used to help people thru issues on some of those niche forums involving home and auto repairs. It's good to know all that will be gone.
I'll be down to one site for online engagement and news.
LegitShady|2 years ago
And while digg's implosion had reddit as an alternative, in 2023 who is the alternative to reddit?
criddell|2 years ago
I think the rapid decline of Twitter and the sputter of Mastodon indicates that a lot of us have realized that simply removing social media from our lives and not replacing it with anything feels pretty good.
A few years ago I used to visit Reddit a couple times every week. These days I only end up there if a google search sends me there.
werid|2 years ago
as for implosion, it might be more of a twitter thing, slowly people will get enough and leave. sometimes you don't need a new destination, but you just stop by the site anymore.
turzmo|2 years ago
exsf0859|2 years ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_fe...
faeriechangling|2 years ago