Scott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮Is this how Reddit dies?
dria 
@shanselman probably... they seem to forget how quickly we murdered digg
Pxtl@dria @shanselman digg had Reddit as a popular replacement waiting on the wings. Where will Redditors go? Hacker News?
@Pxtl @shanselman I signed up at kbin.social -- federated reddit-alike that's...having some traffic issues today. Turns out there's an exodus.
Christian
Charles Roper@teachpaperless @dria @Pxtl @shanselman
More Fediverse Reddit: https://join-lemmy.org/
Jay Little
Matt@shanselman I hope so
Jari Pennanen@shanselman Reddit is an even more developery place than Twitter was. If they anger the developery crowd, it will surely spiral faster than Twitter did. The only question is where will the communities land.
Hughster@Ciantic @shanselman Twitter has sadly most certainly not spiralled. It's still carrying on much as normal.
@hughster @Ciantic @shanselman Twitter seem to have lost at least half of its value since the acquisition, isn’t that spiralling?
Andres Jalinton@shanselman
It seems like it.
It seems like it.
cybik 
@shanselman one can only hope.
To be specific: I hope what Reddit is now, aka the soulless shade of what it once was, goes away.
I sincerely hope the communities endure. If it's through decentralized / federated platforms, then so be it (perfect, even).
Matthew Martin@shanselman To thunderous applause. In darkness.
MostlyBlindGamer@shanselman for me? There’s a very good chance.
Nathan@shanselman it and Twitter were the two biggest text platforms left, so I think this is going to hurt it quite a lot but it won't die until someone comes along with a replacement (and as nice as mastadon is, centralization has it's benefits).
pseudorandom@mirhagk @shanselman The rumored new ActivityPub app from Facebook/Meta might be good for the fediverse in the short term. It would legitimise ActivityPub and be a good place for many new people to start off, while still offering decentralisation for people who don't want to use a Facebook platform
... Unless Facebook completely messes with the protocol implementation and tries to centralise it in some way
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754304/instagram-meta-twitter-competitor-threads-activitypub
Dust@shanselman no, this is when the bots finally take over, and we all shake our heads as zombieddit stumbles itself into an IPO
Michael Argentini@shanselman most certainly. Google searches yielding “private discussion” messages preventing people from reading is a disaster.
Bill@shanselman That would be horrible, but it is looking more and more like it.
Chris Jarvis 
PierreNick 
💾@shanselman They’re taking away the only way I could stand to use modern Reddit, so for me, most likely.
The good old trick to counter garbage search engine SEO to query “<product name> Reddit” will be become less effective, sadly.
John Clayton@shanselman sure looks that way 🤷🏻♂️
Jerome (He/Him)@shanselman i said goodbye to StumbleUpon and Digg. I can say goodbye to Reddit.
Joris "Interface" de Gruyter@shanselman I hope not. Was searching for an answer to a specific question and 4 hits that looked promising got me to a subreddit taken private. The link rot will be real. I’m also not convinced the majority of Reddit users really care about this blackout or why.
ednl 🇪🇺@shanselman Nah, or at least not this round; every subreddit I saw that went private was only doing it for 2 days.
Nina Reynolds@shanselman one could hope
Jason Gill@shanselman
spez: we built something awesome and now AI companies are profiting from it
Redditors: um excuse me, but WE built something awesome and now you want to charge us to continue that. Yeah, no thanks.
Miha Markič@OGjson @shanselman Also, it's clearly geared towards 3rd party clients destruction.
@shanselman Likely not dies, but a blow has been sustained.
I just want everyone to come around to the idea that corporations shouldn't control the social content on the internet. I want to go back to the old internet days!
Scott Kuhl 
@shanselman even if they cave and rebound, this may be the spark for a decentralized clone.
Will Clark@shanselman I think the funnier question to ask is “is this how Reddit gets profitable?”
Lol
Sascha Baumann@shanselman Hope they figure something out 🙄
Greg Bulmash@shanselman not in fire, but in icy abandonment by its mods?
@shanselman yep, with a pic of John Oliver pouring one out?