Technology

Shame reddit didn’t have the same amount of people jump ship like when everyone left Digg 4.0.

I am predicting the same outcome but it will be much slower, reddit will "evolve" into a different kind of platform, with likely more emphasis on promoted content. The reason the "MSN home page" model is copied everywhere is because it generates money and requires far less involvement and maintainence. Reddit haaaaaates their community, they would be so, so happy if they could roll the whole thing back to before people could comment.

But they know that a lot of traffic comes from the engagement, so in order to better manage the community they are bringing in everyone's favorite new buzzword techbro solution to all problems... AI. They have partnered with Google on using Reddit as a training platform for next generation AI models so we will likely see more and more submissions from users who look like people and talk like people, but are actually tools for advertising and pushing agendas. It will be slow enough that the platform holds a strong number of users but it will decline as users flood to other new AI-driven platforms.

It's going to be AI slop all the way down, in all directions.