<story><title>Reddit: Killing a Giant</title><url>https://www.faceted.social/p/3169aedd-3f06-4db4-b51c-ed4690e9f5a6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>donmcronald</author><text>I think this post makes a good point.  Reddit doesn’t have to collapse overnight to become irrelevant.  They’ve made a &lt;i&gt;huge&lt;/i&gt; mistake by upsetting enough people to cause the exploration of alternatives.&lt;p&gt;I spent a couple hours browsing Lemmy instances today and I was shocked at how few users are needed to create replacement communities.  Communities with about 2k users feel sparse, but good enough IMO.&lt;p&gt;I now think Reddit is 100% replaceable, at least for me, and I really hope that more focused community aggregators like programming.dev catch on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chaosjevil</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been among those users creating replacement communities. Mostly about topics that I wanted to speak about, even in Reddit, but prevented myself to do so to not feed that awful company and environment. It feels good - you feel yourself important (I&amp;#x27;m not important though), contributing with something.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t even use mobile, mind you. But I know that a company showing some users its middle finger will eventually show it to me. It did in the past, but sadly it was simply &amp;quot;casual abuse&amp;quot;, not a big screwing up pissing multiple users at the same time.&lt;p&gt;And while anecdotal, this highlights for me:&lt;p&gt;1. The importance to keep a good relationship with your users. Trust is hard to measure through A&amp;#x2F;B testing; people might tolerate some abuse, but they won&amp;#x27;t forget about it. And once you do something that might look inconsequential, but breaks that trust a tiny bit further, it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;just enough&amp;quot; to make them leave, or fight back. Perhaps if Reddit hasn&amp;#x27;t been so abusive towards its users, people would look at the third party apps dying and say &amp;quot;oh well, I&amp;#x27;ll install the official app&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;2. That that trust is also broken if you tell people blatant lies. If Reddit Inc. was actually honest with their intentions (&amp;quot;we want 3rd party apps gone&amp;quot;), or said nothing at all, people wouldn&amp;#x27;t be as pissed. It shows that the company expects them to be stupid, and not even the stupid like to be treated as such.&lt;p&gt;3. That some users are more important to keep happy than others. You definitively don&amp;#x27;t want to piss off the users necessary for your business model.</text></comment>
<story><title>Reddit: Killing a Giant</title><url>https://www.faceted.social/p/3169aedd-3f06-4db4-b51c-ed4690e9f5a6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>donmcronald</author><text>I think this post makes a good point.  Reddit doesn’t have to collapse overnight to become irrelevant.  They’ve made a &lt;i&gt;huge&lt;/i&gt; mistake by upsetting enough people to cause the exploration of alternatives.&lt;p&gt;I spent a couple hours browsing Lemmy instances today and I was shocked at how few users are needed to create replacement communities.  Communities with about 2k users feel sparse, but good enough IMO.&lt;p&gt;I now think Reddit is 100% replaceable, at least for me, and I really hope that more focused community aggregators like programming.dev catch on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nucleative</author><text>The subreddits with the most focused discussions are often those with just a few thousand subs. Perhaps the tipping point is around 10k users... when conversations become much less personal.</text></comment>