We just don’t smell the rot yet. It’s not about the actual body (website) and the name. It is about the spirit, the personality. And that has been compromised and killed off because of factors one could call enshittification or whatever. Digg and Tumblr still exist, at least in name, but not in spirit. I think Reddit has past that threshold. It will be a slow death and I am not sure the fediverse will fill the void it leaves behind. But I do think and believe communities will never sustain on venture capital.

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    I definitely feel like the user base responsible for making OC on reddit are the type that bailed on reddit during the shutdown. With a huge amount of their content creators for the platform gone, it’s gonna be even more recycled garbage.

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    Idk if I became biased after this whole shitstorm, but looks like there are more low effort reposts than before and even less effort in the comments.
    Also, idk if it’s because I have a lot of subs blocked, but subs like ‘am I ugly’ gets so many low hanging fruits, to the point that it looks like bots posting.

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    Frankly, it’s been rotting for years and years. Us users were simply too invested in the rotting corpse to give up on it and kept pumping it with morphine and penicillin.

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      1 year ago

      Great way to put it. Reminds me of 40k lore. Does that make Steve Huffman the God-Emperor?