• @danc4498@lemmy.world
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    91 year ago

    Reddit’s relevance came from the people that used the app, not the app itself. If Reddit wants to fuck over the people that made the app what it is today, they will end up useless.

    Reddit is not like Twitter in that it thrived from mass population of people using it. It thrived from quality users that provided quality content.

    • tal
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      41 year ago

      Ehhh. I think that there’s value to having a large userbase. First, a large userbase means that there are going to tend to be more people to provide quality content. Second, some people contribute content because they want to reach a large audience – I understand that this is one reason that /r/askhistorians decided not to participate.

      None of this is to say that this won’t have a negative impact on Reddit. And I think that the observation, which I’ve seen some other places, is that these changes probably disproportionately impacts people who were contributing content. Just that I don’t think that one can reduce the value of having a large userbase to nil either.

      • minnieoOP
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        1 year ago

        it wont happen because the fediverse is decentralized. if this instance goes to shit, we simply move on to another, without needing to abandon the entire platform

      • Sir_Kevin
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        11 year ago

        This is why I don’t want to push too hard to bring the masses here. If every derp from reddit shows up it’s just going to dilute the quality of lemmy.