cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/38559
I’ve been seeing a lot of angst and emotion on the Reddit migration, which results in either defeatism or blind optimism. In the end, it probably doesn’t matter, but I wanted to do more fact-based research into the subject.
I put my findings and my analysis into what it would actually take to kill Reddit, based on the deaths of Digg and MySpace. tl;dr it’s a lot less dramatic than most people would think.
The analysis of this article maybe simple, but they bear down on a simple truth, successful online communities must be grown organically (rather than copied), and that is the only way to kill the giant that is a Reddit.