I really hope one of the bigger third party apps finds a way to just point their front end to a reddit clone and eat reddits lunch.
If Twitter proved anything, its that its really hard to kill a popular social media network, no matter how badly managed or drama filled it is.
Of course, if someone uses a moral, ethics, or personal political and societal view to judge if a company is well run, then I agree it may appear to many people that Twitter is badly run. But if we take a company valuation and consider the time it took it to achieve it, it's certainly one of the best run companies.
I'd argue this is a failure of imagination more than an endorsement of Twitter. Twitter has inertia - it's going to keep going until it literally can't, and that doesn't mean it's been run well.
It's been chaotic there since acquisition, with major policies being changed on a whim and then retracted and whole functions of the company disappearing entirely or almost entirely. Major news outlets are dropping their twitter presence, and stocks have dropped - if you define that as "good" management, what would bad management even look like?
all together the 3rd party app users and res users consist of millions of the most dedicated tech savvy users that will switch.
myspace and digg technically exist but they're no longer relevant. Reddit is moving in the same direction
Lemmy/kbin is more popular than it has even been and the main lemmy instance is overloaded.
July when the actual apps shut down we'll see a huge migration to the fediverse
Reddit's app has terrible UI/UX, as does the website redesign (new.reddit.com, which is the default www.reddit.com). The only good UI/UX is old.reddit.com, which isn't very good on mobile.
Where do you get this information from? And what is "a lot"?
I'd wager 99% of Reddit users (therefor, income) use the official reddit app and new website.
Without those users, there is no platform.