I know it could easily be justified that it was “dead” years ago and the quality has only degraded over the years… but this really anchors things to the summer of 2023 being when things objectively changed in a big way.
To be sure, Reddit itself will go on but only as a husk of its former self.
I think this will actually not change much for the users themselves. They'll continue using Reddit as normal, and move on. Mod teams will be shuffled, and some of the people using third-party apps (like myself) will just... not use Reddit as much (or at all).
I also don't know how a multi-hundred-million-user platform can be justified as already "dead". It might be dead in some elitist sense, as in "oh, all the smart people like me aren't using it anymore", but...
> Tildes is currently in invite-only alpha, and you must be invited to be able to register. Most of the existing users have the ability to invite others
I do not yet have invite abilities, but I’m sure you can find someone here that does.
But they had the UI and stuff all perfect. Much better than lemmy
I don't tend to keep up with online discourse... but what has happened with linux?