This is what I'm expecting. A year from now someone will mention "reddit" to me and I'll be like "that's still around?" and I'll check it out and it's just turned into TikTok challenges.

It's ironic how I heard from a Facebook employee that the staff members of Facebook have their own internal Facebook network, and it functions a lot more closely like how Facebook was originally supposed to be designed—versus the public model's cesspool of marketing, ads, privacy violations, and manipulation that is the only one we now all know.

This I can believe. The only reason I still have facebook is for the precious few friends whom I use messenger with, as well as the group that the rescue I adopted my dog from uses. Every time I scroll through my timeline it's 90% random garbage, advertisements, and "suggested" bullshit.

I used scripts like PowerDeleteSuite to overwrite my account data there, not everyone will do this but if people really want to see reddit's grip on the internet dissolved that's what they'll need to commit to doing, as painful as it is. And probably sooner than later, as I would not be surprised if Reddit eventually blocks the use of scripts like PDS (there's already a rate limit).

Reddit's seeming invincibility is tied to the content that users created for them and the fact that they have served as a repository for all manner of knowledge over the last few decades. To my mind they've abused that privilege and, not to sound too grandiose, I see it as a responsibility to revoke access to the content I provided them.

Hopefully people generally learn the lesson about centralizing everything in this way. Perhaps its best to not have a front page to the Internet at all.