Reddit crushed its biggest protest ? They’ve never been in a worse position in the websites history. They’ve betrayed the community and made it clear that the only thing that matters is they get their bag. Fuck that. Reddit started with a community this size and blew up. Nothing is more telling than those YouTube videos showing the rise and fall of website popularity from the birth of the internet to now. The websites that were the titans of yesterday are ghost towns right now. Companies that at one time commanded near total control are barely fragments of their former glory if they even continue to exist at all.
What’s the long term plan you rejects, continue to shit on people and ignore their wishes? On a long enough timeline that will see your golden goose fall off the page and cease to be relevant.
Will Reddit go away? No. But I think you’ll see it’s market share continue to fall as people shift away to better options provided by people that aren’t douche bags.