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Reddit is in danger of a death spiral (www.zdnet.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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Huffman has said, "We are not in the business of giving that [Reddit's content] away for free." That stance makes sense. But it also ignores the reality that all of Reddit's content has been given to it for free by its millions of users. Further, it leaves aside the fact that the content has been orchestrated by its thousands of volunteer moderators.

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[–] 14 points 3 years ago

Another relevant quote from the article:

There is nothing special about Reddit except its community and the content the community created. Its software is trivial. Unless Reddit reverses course, Reddit will join Digg, MySpace, and LiveJournal in the dustbin of social network history, and a new site, such as the user-funded Beehaw, or an old one, such as Digg, will take its place.

I would actually revise that to "Its software is trivial, and in some respects notably lacking."

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