If the Info Explosion problem that the Internet produced gets solved some other way.
Sure it will - asymptotically.
But it took 18 years to grow Reddit. Even if a solid alternative emerges in a fraction of that time -- that's still a multi-year gap. Plus we're at a significant knowledge deficit (for us lowly humans, never mind LLMs) if Reddit's archives don't re-emerge sometime soon.
(Google search has been braindead for some time now -- so we can leave that source out of the equation).
It’s interesting to think about an information-deduplication solution for internet. Maybe now we can use LLMs and embeddings to create an archive of all (factual) information, then build a search on top of that?
Main reason such sites came into existence was there was too much info on the Internet.
These sites where attempts at simplifying the numerous websites and blogs ppl had to manually discover and track.
They have meandered around that problem, and got totally distracted by all kinds of other problems (many self created).