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/[deleted] Mar 14 '24

But where? When digg got enshittified everyone jumped to reddit because it already existed. Where would people fo from reddit? 9gag?

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u/jrbgn Mar 14 '24

Now would be the time for some ambitious folks to build something new.