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I’ve been seeing a lot of angst and emotion on the Reddit migration, which results in either defeatism or blind optimism. In the end, it probably doesn’t matter, but I wanted to do more fact-based research into the subject.

I put my findings and my analysis into what it would actually take to kill Reddit, based on the deaths of Digg and MySpace. tl;dr it’s a lot less dramatic than most people would think.

  • Harlan_Cloverseed@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    Another thing is - anyone who was there when Digg was still great knows — digg didn’t die overnight and there was no big movement. People started using Digg and Reddit simultaneously, and gradually moved away from Digg. There were platform changes etc, but Digg was already dying at that point. It happened organically.

    • Cyzaine@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Can I just say I can’t believe I’m doing ANOTHER migration? I thought Digg to Reddit was a once a life sort of thing.

        • assbutt@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          Nothing you said refutes anything I said. My point was that reddit has value even if all the humans leave. Digg was sold, implying value, yes?

          There will never be some end of the road, flipping the giant breaker on reddit’s servers movie scene death. It will live on in some form no matter the outcome of the current drama.

          Of course digg.com is a wildly different place today, the entire world is a different place today…