The last major holdouts in the protest against Reddit’s API pricing relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the TV host. It's the official end of the battle. The Reddit protest is over, and Reddit won.
Facebook is a shell of what it was, if Google Trends is to be believed. It dwarfed everything else in 2012 and has been on a steady decline ever since, and is now starting to play with the others.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Facebook,Twitter,Reddit,Instagram,Snapchat&hl=en-US
Maybe Facebook got so big and their search is so good that people just stopped using Google search for it, but I have a hard time believing that can be responsible for a drop of this magnitude.
I guess “kill” would need to be defined as well. Digg v4 killed Digg and drove everyone to Reddit. Digg is still around, but it’s just a news site, it’s not user driven, which was the whole point of Digg. So while it may not technically be dead, the Digg we knew died with the release of v4.
Even if Reddit doesn’t die, I think having it shrink, with other options is health for the web. Having a handful of mega sites is not what the internet was designed for and I think it makes it vulnerable.
Facebook (the page) is dead in the sense that its parent company changed their name to not be the same as their (once powerhouse) product. Facebook trademark is so unbelievably cursed due to what it became that they’re pretending that it does not exist.
Meta is focusing on Instagram for now. They could’ve launched Threads within Facebook (I think it was at some point) but they choose not to. Instagram is how they reach out to the people.
This means that Facebook was enshittified successfully. It does not serve any purpose now.
I don’t think Reddit has the same choice as they don’t really have means to pivot to something else. It will just cease to be… Or not.
I understand why the didn’t do threads in Facebook incase they need to shut it down. Kinda like how they have Messenger then purchased WhatsApp but never integrated it if they want to shut one down.
I would say you’re probably right. Remember this old gem?