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He's not wrong.
Don't get me wrong, Reddit is already inescapably in a path towards failure. But it won't happen right now, and not with a 48hrs blackout.
After the blackout though, make sure to redirect people to Lemmy.
This plus reddit is still active. Many subs left but many is still activly used like r/askreddit
Only a bit more than 100k ppl are on lemmy and reddit have over 1 billion...
This site says reddit has 430 million active users and 44% active user growth since last year. https://backlinko.com/reddit-users#reddit-daily-active-users
So I think lemmy will be it's own nich and reddit will just keep on going. I don't think much will happen as long as ppl don't rage over there and live the wild west, spam with gore and porn on all subs with no moderation so businesses do not want to have their ads there. Seems far fetched tho and I don't know if any big wigs will even notice it. Maybe smaller business that doesn't matter to reddit. And also all the bots will make it seem active too. And reddit only care about numbers that can be shown to their stakeholders and partners/sponsors.
But I also think it is fine. Does who care will be somewhere else and does who dont will stay there. But the reason this all happened suck tho
So the next phase after blackout starting after the api changes is the spam bot phase?
Haha I guess. If the bots works after the api change. I don't know how much worth it is for them to pay for the api. So maybe it will shock us all of how different reddit will be?
I don't see reddit growing further, the people that came are 99,99% people that just browse the Frontpage and maybe up vote, the important people are the mods and content creators. Without third party stuff moderation is impossible on reddit realistically speaking. And most contributing people used third party, reddit will look like digg in the near future.
Also if they just counted new accounts as new users im personal 12 of them + 3 bot accounts... What is a "active reddit user" a account that isn't u/deleted?