I’ve never been sentimental about a social media site but it’s sad for me to see reddit so clearly killing itself. Pushshift is already banned and Apollo is soon to follow. Reddit will either pivot fully to a mainstream audience or die out. It’s just sad for me to see it doing it to itself.
I’m still expecting a relatively slow death for Reddit, perhaps even not a total one like with Digg’s quick and complete collapse. I’ll be sticking around Reddit past the June 30 horizon, I’ll just be doing it entirely via my desktop browser. I’ll probably only stop going once they get rid of Old Reddit.
This means that there’ll be a gradual winding down of the communities I pay attention to, accompanied by a gradual migration to places like here. Hopefully little will be lost in the process.