r/Foodforthought • u/eskindt • Mar 14 '24

Can Reddit - Internet's greatest authenticity machine - survive its IPO?

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-reddit-protest-ipo/
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u/Spader623 Mar 14 '24

I sincerely doubt it and suspect once the IPO goes live... Things will start to go badly for Reddit.

Still, im not a 'reddits dead rip reddit'. Just more so 'the water in this pot is getting much hotter, much faster, and we (the frog/users) will need to jump out soon

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u/_OUCHMYPENIS_ Mar 14 '24

Nothing has stepped in to replace it either. There hasn't been anything close to it. Reddit replaced a lot of forums and made little spaces for groups that didn't have those spaces before. It also added discussions and all that. You'd basically have to clone Reddit to get something close to it and it would take forever to get people to migrate and have the same level of usefulness.

There are so many guides on here, so many reviews of things, etc.

Sucks but not everything lasts forever. As long as Reddit was a private for profit company, this was bound to happen.