• 520@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Reddit was around for a long time as a competitor to Digg before the latter shot itself in the ass. Reddit is still in the ‘fuck around’ phase with a hint of ‘find out’.

        Rome wasn’t built in a day.

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          1 year ago

          Digg was nowhere close to as big as reddit is now.

          Look at all the dumb shit twitter has done and it still is a gargantuan platform. Like it or not, these platforms aren’t going anywhere.

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            1 year ago

            Very few people actively delete their accounts, but platform eventually die if they can’t attract the next generation (young users). Less than 20% of the youth use Facebook for example, because they don’t want to be in the same platform as their parents watching them, it will be a long painful day death. Same thing can happen to any platform.

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              1 year ago

              Facebook just hit it’s record high of 4 billion monthly active users lol

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                1 year ago

                Just because it’s profitable now, doesn’t mean it’s going to be the case in the future or be sustainable (example, fossil fuels).

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      1 year ago

      We’ve got one that is orders of magnitude smaller and has no where near the number or quality of communities as Reddit.