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Comment by benbristow | Hacker News Reader

If their API is killed I think Reddit's done for. I wouldn't use it if I were forced to use the official app myself, sure many others wouldn't either.

Folk would probably move over to something like voat.co

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Voat is appalling and revels in its terribleness. There has to be something better to migrate to.

Reddit : Usenet :: Slack : IRC

There will be other places for you to migrate to, as there have been for decades, if not an entire generation.

Reddit has always been some new thing that the kids use. Slack will be dying soon enough too.

The most promising general reddit equivalent I've seen so far is tildes.net. It's the first time I've seen a fork of the reddit model with some actually fresh ideas. However, like all of the hundreds of alternatived, this site is far below the critical mass required to make browsing it regularly worthwhile.

Would you have an invite to send to try the alpha?

All that it needs is for reddit to commit suicide just like digg chose to.

I expect people would mostly just use the mobile web site. And there would be a lot of noise. But I can't ever see myself going to somewhere like voat.

Voat? Might as well believe that Facebook users are switching to Diaspora

You usually would move over to something better, not worse.

Yeah, Voat's not an appealing alternative. There's an ActivityPub-powered, federated link aggregator in the works[1], that could work out really well as each community could have their own rules and if you don't want to federate with a particular one, just block them.

1 - https://gitlab.com/mbajur/prismo

Off topic but man do I like gitlabs current UI on iPad, not seen it for a while.

There is an alternative made by a previous reddit dev called tildes.net its invite only and quite enjoyable to use. Classic lightweight website and no trolls

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