How long will it take for Reddit to die? 5 or more years? Maybe less? What do you guys think?
Reddit won’t die anytime soon. It will just become irrelevant to internet power users such as us. It would take an unfathomably massive fuck up to lose their critical mass of users.
I agree that Reddit will become irrelevant to internet power users. However, I disagree that it takes a massive fuckup to lose the critical mass of users.
A simple way to explain this is to imagine that everyone has an individual “I’m pissed and I leave” threshold; if a platform displeases a user more than that threshold, they leave.
For power users, this threshold is really low, so they ditch platforms like Reddit faster. However, that does not mean that the others aren’t getting displeased - they do; it might not be enough to convince them to leave, but it quickly piles up with other things displeasing them.
As such, even a large platform can lose that critical mass of users over time, even without a massive fuckup. It’s just about small things piling up.
Another thing to consider is that power users are more important to a platform than the rest of the userbase, because the power users interact with the platform more. And they’re typically the ones doing janny crap, or finding and sharing content, or that actually have anything meaningful to add instead of “lol lmao”. So once the power users leave, the platform becomes less desirable for the others too, and that’s recursive - as the power users leave, the almost-power users leave too, then the ones after them, so goes on. And there the critical mass goes down the drain.
Reddit is still doing just fine.
This is equivalent of stalking your ex years after breaking up and hoping them to break up with their new partner.
Move on.
Sadly, reddit is not dying. I thought so too but unfortunately only a microscopic amount of users cares about not being subjected to ads, tracking and ridiculous moderation if they get some entertainment in return.
Same with Instagram, Tiktok, Facebook…
A lot of people are depressed and tired (because of society design), and needs these things to pass the time in their lives.
I’m personally making some strong changes in my own life, because I got so ridiculously bored with my own life and realized I’m on the wrong path, spending my time at home so much.
Die? It’s not going to die any time soon, on a corporate level.
It’s already dead in the ways that made it worth using.
