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Now no one will ever see all those super long !remindme bot posts set for 5, 10 or 15 years on Reddit (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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[–] 44 points 3 years ago (5 children)

It was sort of ambitious for people to think they'd be on reddit with the same account in 20 years

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  • [–] 72 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I don't think so, reddit was so dominant that had they simply not decided to anger all their power users, we'd all still be on there like nothing had changed. A good platform has staying power, I've been on Steam for 16 years and I have no plans of bailing on it because it's simply the best gaming platform I've ever used. It's not game lock-in or anything, most of my games I could buy elsewhere or pirate, I just like having the features and all these other ones popping up like GOG Galaxy still aren't overtaking it despite the good PR.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Capitalism killed it. That's how things go. They are great for a while then get too big and have to keep growing for some reason. The pursuit of perpetual growth ruins everything

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    aka the great enshittification of '23

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Thats how we gonna call this era arent we?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    This is exactly it, now that the economy is slowing down, reddit is just one of many tech startups which whose investors now require actual returns instead of just promises of endless growth.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Agreed. Have been on Steam for almost 19 years. Nothing has really degraded as far as the service goes, and Valve's approach to listening to community feedback is good. We've saw controversy, mainly Paid Mods and CS:GO gambling, both have been taken care of for the most part due to community pushback. I can't think of a controversy that has made me want to leave the service though. With Reddit, it was a slow decline to its death on July 1st.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Not gonna lie, it was the will Reddit fiasco that has me concerned about my game library when Gabe goes

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Yahoo answers held on for decades after it was relevant, I'm sure Reddit will be around in 15 years.

    Sadly, Remindbot will be reminding a ghost town populated only by other bots

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'm still with my old yahoo account, because it is tied with my tumblr account, and sad to say my tumblr is much older than my first reddit account, which is older than the digg migration. I'd revive yahoo groups in a heartbeat if it is revived with the same feature set. There's a certain kind of group discussion it really does well for that forums don't really capture.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    I’d revive yahoo groups in a heartbeat if it is revived with the same feature set

    SAME, why did Yahoo shut down, there were so many incredible things to it (but I like forums, too)

    Edit: I'm dumb and misspoke, Yahoo itself didn't shut down but a lot of things in it did

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