this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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I think Reddit will just accelerate its descent into low-quality spam and repost bot hell. Half of it will be Facebook Memes posted to Twitter posted to Reddit. Or Tiktok videos posted to Instagram posted to Reddit.
Not everyone will leave and many subreddits will return but unless there's a MAJOR walkback, concession and promise then Reddit will remain as a husk of its past. Every move Reddit has announced since April just sounds like they are trying to wring out every penny from users that care to use their platform.
I'm weaning off of Reddit mostly, the blackout helps with the transition.
You know thinking about it, so much of its content had already become this. Basically half of all posts I'd seen had replies like "this is a karma farming bot, ignore it." And the other half were just reposts from TikTok.