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I read The Verge's latest interview with Steve Huffman here and it seems as though the Reddit blackout is having little to no effect. It also seems as though the communities at large don't really care and will probably just use the official app or don't really know there are 3rd party ones. So it seems this will pass and be mostly forgotten about.

What are your thoughts?

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[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't really care. I'm here now, deleted my 12 year old account in the process. People thinking Reddit will die are delusional. The Reddit as us old people know it has died years ago, it just became unbearable now.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have to admit that I'm enthusiastic about the whole fediverse thing mostly because reddit became the new facebook. Reddit used to be a bit of a nerdy place but gradualy it became just another shitty social network. The people who migrate away from reddit right now are the nerds who care about things like a decentralized internet, which is exactly the kind of geeky thing that old reddit's userbase cared about.

Reddit right now is like the Simpsons. It won't die but it stopped being good a long time ago.