User visits and time spent on the social media platform normalize after traffic to Reddit briefly dipped last week during the blackout, according to SimilarWeb.
eventually it’ll run dry - because the contributors are leaving the site
I somewhat disagree… you haven’t considered the increased incentive for occasional posters to become more regular contributors as existing contributors leave.
As the volume of contributions reduces, each contribution is more likely to garner engagement - those sweet sweet endorphins released when someone upvotes or otherwise engages with your post.
Even if it does, it doesn’t really matter if Reddit can become profitable.
It doesn’t really matter what we think but what the shitty capitalists bearing down on Reddit think. They clearly pushed for it to move into crypto and NFTs and I wouldn’t doubt if they push it to chase the next hype of AI. I wouldn’t doubt if the restrictions in the API are AI related and Reddit has lots of archived comments and posts to draw from.
If Reddit was actually good at this and had anyone of value in that mass of 2000 employees then AI moderating and posting would already be announced.
That would truly be the end of Reddit, but my god. They could IPO at a quadrillion dollars as all the tech bros fall on top of each other to buy the stock.
Then, a couple of years later when it’s terrible and doesn’t work at all it will quietly fade away. Just like what’s already going to happen, just without the successful IPO.
I somewhat disagree… you haven’t considered the increased incentive for occasional posters to become more regular contributors as existing contributors leave.
As the volume of contributions reduces, each contribution is more likely to garner engagement - those sweet sweet endorphins released when someone upvotes or otherwise engages with your post.
Even if it does, it doesn’t really matter if Reddit can become profitable.
It doesn’t really matter what we think but what the shitty capitalists bearing down on Reddit think. They clearly pushed for it to move into crypto and NFTs and I wouldn’t doubt if they push it to chase the next hype of AI. I wouldn’t doubt if the restrictions in the API are AI related and Reddit has lots of archived comments and posts to draw from.
If Reddit was actually good at this and had anyone of value in that mass of 2000 employees then AI moderating and posting would already be announced.
That would truly be the end of Reddit, but my god. They could IPO at a quadrillion dollars as all the tech bros fall on top of each other to buy the stock.
Then, a couple of years later when it’s terrible and doesn’t work at all it will quietly fade away. Just like what’s already going to happen, just without the successful IPO.