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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by makeitdouble on Monday June 12, 2023 @06:06AM (#36290998)
I'm with you that a site of that critical size probably won't die, not within a decade.

The same was AOL is actually not completely dead. Yahoo! is not dead, Digg isn't either, neither did MySpace. And I'd totally see Tumblr having a full come back to the front of the stage.

Another way to put it could be "dead to us" for any specific value of "us".

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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by rchaud on Monday June 12, 2023 @10:47AM (#36294465)
AOL and Yahoo had advertising revenues Reddit could only dream of.

As it stands, a huge chunk of Reddit's content is Twitter and Tiktok reposts. Older users like me enjoyed that because I didn't want to sign up for Twitter and TT. The younger app centric users that Reddit is pivoting to probably have Twitter and TT accounts. So what value is Reddit providing?

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