Many subs that didn’t go dark still seem to have plenty of participants and people need their digital crack.
I don’t see this being a digg moment for Reddit.
The current social media scene is dead. But its going to be messy because of the network effects, the poisson adtech models etc.
I'd be really surprised if the known platforms can somehow reinvent themselves. They are hostage to the same mechanics that prevents others to do something better.
Well, anyone with enough money to burn can, but most who could probably can find other, better ways to burn the money.
It's getting the network effect that's difficult. And as much as we nerds want to believe, the best technical solution isn't always what wins.
But I do want to selfishly drop this gem from the founder of digg on the eve of their destruction, which mirrors so closely the quote from this memo https://twitter.com/kevinrose/status/22543843421