Reddit Migration

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Killing a giant (Reddit) (www.faceted.social)

submitted 1 year ago by bill_1992@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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I've been seeing a lot of angst and emotion on the Reddit migration, which results in either defeatism or blind optimism. In the end, it probably doesn't matter, but I wanted to do more fact-based research into the subject.

I put my findings and my analysis into what it would actually take to kill Reddit, based on the deaths of Digg and MySpace. tl;dr it's a lot less dramatic than most people would think.

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[–] Otome-chan@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I wasn't here for the digg->reddit migration (I stumbled upon reddit without knowing what digg was). But this is a very insightful take. The idea of becoming "the" place for niche communities is an interesting idea, because for a lot of these alt-platforms it honestly feels like the opposite (only the most shallow generic popular topics end up being active).

Maybe this means something like dbzer0 has a bright future? The article mentions reddit being "the" place for tech and facebook being "the" place for college students. I wonder what kbin's equivalent is or could be?