"This community is available in the app"

Re:"This community is available in the app" by hadlock on Sunday February 16, 2020 @05:13AM (#22340863)

Reddit is the flavor of the month. It's been a long month, but before Reddit there was digg, kuro5hin, plastic, something awful, slashdot.

Myspace was the flavor of the month. Now it is facebook/imgur/snapchat. But before it was friendster, AIM, MSN, ICQ etc. Maybe next it will be Discord or Son Of Discord.

The wheel continues to turn. I have zero faith Reddit will command the market share it does today, in 2030.

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Re:"This community is available in the app" by MaxBarraclough on Sunday February 16, 2020 @05:43AM (#22340962)

I wouldn't say reddit replaced Slashdot, any more than it's replaced Hacker News.

Slashdot really only competes with a dozen or so subreddits, after all, not with reddit as a whole.

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Re:"This community is available in the app" by dillonmckay on Sunday February 16, 2020 @07:23AM (#22341227)

Friendster should have licensed their patents to Facebook, not sold them.

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Re:"This community is available in the app" by KozmoNau7 on Sunday February 16, 2020 @11:36AM (#22342296)

Something Awful still exists and is still very active, last time I checked.

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Re:"This community is available in the app" by hadlock on Sunday February 16, 2020 @09:18PM (#22345057)

Yeah and in 10 years both forums will still exist. Something Awful exists and is active, but it's not in the cultural driver's seat the way it was in 2004-2009. But then Reddit (some claim, Twitter) came along and ate their lunch and they've been in the back seat for many many years with slow to no user growth.

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