It's already dead, but the corpse is being propped up by techno-necromancy.

The average user doesn't know or care about anything. You could prove to them beyond all doubt that every reddit post or twitter tweet causes a puppy to get punched in the head, and they'd shrug and say "but this is where the funny memes are".

Reddit: More active and profitable than it has ever been

Lemmy: "Reddit's days are numbered."

Ah, yeah, the website that will ban you for "provoking violence" against right-wing personalities.

And uses AI-assisted profiling for mods who can decide if a user can be banned for specific ideologies.

Is it, though? I haven't been there for months and sometimes almost forget about it. I honestly just don't care anymore.

What I learned after 12 years on reddit: the admins are Nazi sympathizers, pedo protectors, and propaganda enablers.

Looking at that place now, it's crazy that people are still putting up with the bullshit. Everyone is getting censored/banned, comments removed, threads the admins don't like (especially anti Trump/Elon or pro-Palestine) get locked almost immediately. Reddit is literally bottom of the porta potty enshittified.

I was looking up a review of a mediocre tech gadget the other day. It turned out it sucked, in research Google took me to Reddit and every third post about it was a glowing "I use blah every day and it works perfectly for my needs and I'm glad I bought it." The negative posts were obviously real with details about annoying quirks and the very positive posts were obviously AI/sponsored. And it reminded me why I left and how normal this has become.

They recently permanently banned my account for saying some CEO is a lazy pos that should be fired because if i have to do his job for him then he shouldn't have it and this was a call for violence, so i write this in my appeal "you banned my account for calling someone out for exploitation? ok, i have alternatives, goodbye." exact words, they restored the comment but my account is still banned, so yeah it's definitely time for them to go.

Reddit was absolutely not an image board to begin with. To begin with there wasn't even a convenient way you could even post images! Which is why imgur was created 4 years later!. Reddit 2005, Imgur 2009.

Reddit was originally 100% text based. Reddit was originally a general discussion forum, and the structure and dry text only format attracted mostly (to some degree) nerds and intellectuals, so the knowledge of users was generally above average, and so reddit became an amazing information hub too.

Unfortunately more "user friendly" design and the increasing popularity and the end of Digg resulted in more noise from users that detracted more than they contributed. When I left I estimate more than 90% of users weren't even familiar with rediquette, which laid down excellent principles for how to behave. Like don't downvote because you disagree, only downvote if a post doesn't contribute to the discussion. It was almost never mentioned, and it was clearly not followed by the vast majority.

So being a debate forum with many knowledgeable people, slowly went out the windows, so more than a decade ago it was over IMO, and the quality of posts and discussions had dropped so dramatically at that point, it was no longer worth it.

To me all the shenanigans after that point are basically irrelevant, reddit hasn't been worth it for more than a decade IMO.
Apart from that he has some good points, especially the centralized and AI parts.

long past the time

When it dies, some of the normies who inhabited it looking for advice on DIY home repairs and cooking and TV shows will come here, take one look at the pissposting freaks they’d be trapped with and run for the safety of Facebook and its AI boomer slop with their tails between their legs.

Randomly got an email from reddit about a password reset request recently.
Wonder if it's someone trying it out or just an automated reddit attempt at drawing me back in.

Should be on the decline as spez seeks to kick progressives out of his sandbox, but in my country, more middle- and upper-class young people are going there believing they get better answers, culture, -- and memes -- than they would wading through "slummy" Facebook.