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Reddit will lose at least 25% of its user base after June. Hopefully more, but realistically, older audiences won’t understand or make effort to move off it.
> older audiences won’t understand or make effort
I wouldn't be so sure about that :P
When I was a kid personal computers didn't exist, when the internet came I was already working full-time, I'm "that kind" of old :D
I came here before the AMA was announced and I'm not the only one, very many "older" people used to "old" USENET and mailing-lists/groups are fleeing reddit as well.
And some young people I've seen simply don't care and will go on using reddit no matter what.
Age doesn't matter, it's habits and mindset :)
Older audience member here. I remember seeing the DOS 2.0 box sitting on my grandfather’s shelf, and him teaching me hours to use the CLI to make in inventory of my baseball cards.
I must’ve been about 5-6 years old then, and I later got to experience the absolute magic of 14.4 and still later that fad of whatever those .mp3 things were supposed to be…
I left reddit and made the effort to learn how these newfangled federal sites work, and I’ll keep at it. Never did quite understand what that clock social platform was about, or why the youngers like it so much, though suspect that’s by design.