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I sadistically don’t like this.
Generally I’m all for things like this, but I don’t want there to be workarounds and backdoors to prolong reddit’s life.
It want the acceleration towards its death to increase. I don’t want people to be able to enjoy it so that the spell of the addiction (one I was guilty of) can be broken.
I think we can all do our part by blocking the website from our search results. Let it just hemorrhage and die with its bot network and shitty people.
Until you find or create a replacement that is easier to use than Reddit/Lemmy/PieFed and appeals to the same gigantic audiences as well as serve heroic amounts of web traffic as much as reddit serves each hour of each day without lag or latency, it will never die within your lifetime.
You could have said the exact same thing about Digg or MySpace 15 years ago.
Reddit is difficult to replace, but not nearly as difficult as you imply. Serving a lot of web traffic with low latency is a well documented and solved problem. And a competitor does not go from zero to 100 million users over night, they have plenty of time to scale. Countless companies have accomplished this.
Reddit is, by and large, an extremely basic concept. It's a link sharing site with comment trees. Undergrads could spin up a similar website in a week, albeit less scalable. But again, there is plenty of time to figure out the scaling issue.
Lol, websites are born and die constantly. Nobody knows what the next big thing will be but reddit will definitely die within our lifetime.
Remember MySpace? How about Friendster?
Sounds like a win either way to me!
I think you may have misunderstood what I'm saying: you can't kill reddit. You can only try to atrophy their users with better sites that only attract their niche audiences, including their shitty users as well.
Oh no, I was being dumb haha.
Either the site dies, or I do lol. I agree with you, it won’t die before I do.