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Re:Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments by Semaphor on Friday June 16, 2023 @08:00AM (#36355108)
> Will this go down as the fastest suicide of a social media company?

While that would be nice, I doubt it. The quality of content might suffer and smaller subreddits will finally be where large ones have been for a long time, but for the vast majority of users who doomscroll and share memes, nothing much will change and reddit will continue.

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Re:Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments by nologic01 on Friday June 16, 2023 @08:50AM (#36355722)
> the vast majority of users who doomscroll and share memes

this might be true, but this content is not what made reddit valuable

as with twitter, the fundamental question is: where do the large numbers of contributors of quality information / discussion (a small fraction of billions is still a huge number) go for a sane, long-term sustainable online platform that will not turn into the next Library of Alexandria

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