Reddit’s 2023 r/Place turned into a battleground for dunking on the CEO
Reddit’s 2023 r/Place dunks on the CEO in colorful terms
https://www.polygon.com/23808718/reddit-r-place-fuck-spez-ceo-protest-steve-huffman
Redditors are trying to Google bomb search engines with an collaboratively made image that reads ‘Fuck Spez’
Man, I don't know. I know this is just a personal anecdote, but around my friend circle, I haven't gotten a single share from reddit in over a month when we used to send links back and forth daily. Those same people have said they haven't visited reddit in a month, other than the rare checkin on the drama.
I'm sure the significance of the impact is relatively small, but I'd also guess many of those that left were heavy users and contributors. I'll go over there to check every few days and have noticed the content quality is significantly worse than 2 months ago.
That said, it is also very possible this whole thing blows over and the million or so of us that left are meaningless in reddits overall lifespan.
To be clear I don’t think it’ll blow over. The site is definitely worse off than it was before. But I do think it’ll continue instead of collapsing. It will just turn into something completely unrecognizable compared to what it was. Imagine Tumblr or Imgur.
It will just turn into something completely unrecognizable compared to what it was.
Completely agreed. Reddit won't die, but it also won't be the "front page of the internet" as it was from 2016-2022 or so.
I mostly only use car subreddits like r/cars, but it's mostly the same over there - things haven't changed for the most part.