Reddit: Killing a Giant
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It's understandable to be defeatist about the recent Reddit protests. The recent subreddit blackouts weren't 100% popular and similar attempts to migrate away from Twitter have hit road bumps....

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.