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[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

even funnier... as a dinosaur, reddit could have persisted on and grown. there were enough old souls wedded to reddit to make it less swampy than some other centralized sites. the gamification of interactions and internet point scoring was mostly ignorable with minor effort. now... there will be a non-trivial exodus of people. people who's identities are not completely tied to the daily dopamine hit. in other words, the very same people that build communities.