Reddit Migration

104 readers

1 users here now

### About Community Tracking and helping #redditmigration to Kbin and the Fediverse. Say hello to the decentralized and open future. To see latest reeddit blackout info, see here: https://reddark.untone.uk/

founded 2 years ago

Why Reddit Is Destined to Turn to Crap (www.motherjones.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Lells@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

19 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Users are facing down the web forum's IPO plans, but Big Tech's attract-and-extract cycle can't be stopped.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The death of a website isn't a single event, it's a process that plays over potentially years. It plays out like your favorite restaurant dying: first the food gets expensive, then the food quality becomes garbage, and then you notice how few patrons come at peak hours. The day that restaurant died isn't the day the "We've shut down" notice appears on the door. It's started long before then.

[–] Lells@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Had a Burger King near me die. It seemed sudden, because one day I went there and got lunch, and the next day it was closed forever. But in retrospect, yeah, you run for like 9 months with only 2-3 workers on, you're not giving a very good impression, and it's inevitable.

I don't blame the workers in any of that, they were doing their best. If BK wasn't going to pay a livable wage, that's their own fault, nobody wants to work a job that isn't going to pay their bills.