Reddit Continues to Fall Apart

I use Reddit, albeit less than before. Reddit’s not falling apart at all. 99.9% of subs aren’t noticeable different, and nobody likes u/spez but that drama is now in the background.

On the bright side, Reddit alternatives (particularly Lemmy and kbin) are way better and more popular now than before the protest. Not as popular as Reddit: according to lemmy.world there are ~450,000 users (https://lemmy.world/post/2923697). But before the site was all but unknown and dead, now there’s regular content across many categories. The infrastructure is also getting more reliable + optimized and there are new clients for mobile.

Light on metrics, heavy on circumstantials. What does it mean for a single subreddit to become “useless?” How did it impact MAU, or ad views on the whole of reddit.com?

When spez witnessed Elmo's impact on Twitter and subsequently adopted his API and immature strong-arm tactics, it was almost inevitable that Reddit would suffer a similar fate of ruination.

I bought a puzzle box with an online adventure game from The Modern Rogue (my second one). There is always a monthly Reddit reunion of people who bought the MR puzzles, which lasts for a year, to help with hints for solving each month's online part of the puzzle adventure.

So hopefully Reddit can keep it together for at least that long! Part of the success of these puzzles is the intermittent Reddit community it creates around solving the puzzles, and we haven't even received the physical boxes to begin yet!

Apparently they're renaming Reddit to MySpace.