Reddit isn't dying anymore than Facebook is dying. It will linger around forever.
Digg is being rebooted or something. I mean if Digg is gonna come back then Reddit is gonna be too.
Bringing up Digg is a good point, though, to highlight that "being dead/dying" in a maximalist definition is not a good model to highlight developments and relevancy. Them not being dead didn't mean they hadn't lost all relevancy for a long while.
Reddit is of course still a giant, like, genuinely gargantuan. The de-facto mainstream implementation of threaded discussions and public forums. But there has been a clear development for a while now, that indicates they may indeed have peaked and will only lose relevancy from now on. Hopefully, with a huge chunk of people switching over to the Fediverse, which currently is on a rising tide¹ - even though of course in a picture looking at just the present, it's still an ant compared to Reddit.
¹: A huge bonus effect being the additional synergies, especially from Mastodon -> other platforms. I feel like I have increasingly seen comments from Mastodon on Lemmy even, and PeerTube has had a huge chunk of their interactions from Mastodon for a while now.
Reddit is not going anywhere anytime soon. Their stock price might not be doing great at the moment, but there is no reason to think the platform will die. Lemmy has a chicken and egg problem. In order to draw users away from Reddit it would need sufficient content, but to get that content it would need more users.
Reddit will definitely see some shakeups soon, especially when they introduce paid subs, but I'm not sure Lemmy has what it takes to capitalize on that. I love Lemmy, but at it's core it's a more difficult to use, federated, reddit clone.
The fediverse deserves something new. Not a clone of a commercial network, but something novel that takes advantage of the federated nature of the network. I still very much believe in that 90's internet dream of a democratized social space for all humans, but we're not getting there with janky clones of anti-social media.
Lemmy is just Reddit fifteen years ago. Enjoy it while it lasts.
Even Reddit fifteen years ago had active niche communities, which Lemmy does not (because they're all still on reddit). Lemmy has to compete where reddit didn't. There was like a bbs before there was /r/spooncarving (or whatever).
We're having this conversation on a community about an open source picture hosting platform. How much more niche do we need to get??
Before Reddit there was fark, slashdot, and a few others. They're probably still around since dying takes forever. Reddit had to compete, but the user experience was better than the others. Now it's not.
Fark is better than ever honestly, though not quite as left leaning in the comments anymore but it is pretty civil
Digg is dead.
They said the same thing about digg right before the exodus...
Apparently Digg is trying a comeback?
They try it every few years but only manage to attract the kind of people that dragged it down in the first place. Digging themselves deeper it seems
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