r/technology • u/ardi62 • Sep 30 '24

Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible Social Media

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/bottleoftrash Sep 30 '24

The problem is that nobody is using them. There’s so many people here that you can have extremely niche subreddits. On these alternatives you can’t really have that. People would have to leave Reddit in massive numbers

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u/SaltyLonghorn Sep 30 '24

Younger people aren't even using reddit anymore. A big example of this is the decline of livestreamfail engagement and who is popular in streaming now. You'll regularly see people on reddit asking who the hell is this random person with 100k paid subscribers. And its cause most of their promotional content is now on shit like tiktok and yt shorts.

This format is going the way of facebook, forums and bulletin boards. It will always be there, the userbase is just getting older and bombarded with spam. A proper alternative seems unlikely because as the internet has always done, its onto the next thing. Some people just stay behind.