I'll say my opinion, it may feel unrealistic to some.
Reddit is much harder to kill than Digg was. Digg was only good at taking news from sites and putting it into one centralized source. Reddit has many niche communities where people gather to exchange ideas, and these small communities are well protected from the big picture - they just don't have to care what happens outside. Say, I like football (soccer) and I don't care what Reddit is, but I just wanna discuss football. I know that /r/soccer is where I want to be and I don't give a crap about the big picture on the site.
Unless the admins decide to put pop-up ads all over the site or mess with its basic functionality, these people will always have the tools to go on with their small groups untouched.
People moving away are people interested in the big picture of the site, people who are opinionated and actually give a shit about their liberties out of the context of their personal interests. Based on my personal experience, there are not many people in the world who have the time or the energy to be preoccupied with such matters. They will go there cause it's fast, comfortable, and trouble-free.
Snapzu has a potential to grow its niche communities just as Reddit has, but those niche communities will probably have to be built by the people here, and not by those already in charge of them on Reddit. If Snapzu is to grow, we need to give that /r/soccer casual user who comes by the newest articles in football, discussion threads and everything Reddit has. And I'm talking here only related to football - think of how many other small communities there are.
I don't think we should be rushing to that anyway. For example my small /t/dota2 tribe just started getting its few users, and I'm sure a lot more will come, and slowly we will set our own habits and trends and we will find our own way. When more communities will mature to the next stage in the same way, that is when Snapzu will be ready to take Reddit's place.
Wow that was a fantastic reply. I'd like to add to your point about the big picture of Reddit.
I think that a lot of people are moving away or just trying something different because they don't really care about the big picture of the site, but they are tired of reading about it and seeing endless content about it, myself included. I never went to Reddit to hear about the political hierarchy of a website, I just wanted to read stories and talk to like minded people that shared the same interests as me. I feel like Reddit has been growing away from that for quite some time, maybe because of the large user base, maybe because of Admins/Mods. All I know is that Reddit isn't putting out the content that I originally went there for any more, and it's time for me to make a change.
Maybe Snapzu can be that change. Just looking at the two comments that I've gotten on this post there is more quality and thought than I would get in a thousand Reddit posts. Just look at any askreddit thread.
I may choose to move my 'front page of the internet' here to snapzu, but I don't see myself ever abandoning reddit entirely. Why? It's those same key features you talked about with the smaller communities. /r/exmormon, /r/lgg2, /r/pbsideachannel, /r/cynicalbrit ... they're all very tight knit communities that I doubt could ever transfer over without a formal 'this subreddit is moving to snapzu' type of movement. While these smaller communities remain important to people, reddit will always be a thing.
Seriously, I think the porn subreddits will not die anytime soon. They're to well established and the need it fulfills is of the immediate-rewards type. People don't think rationally when they're horny.
I'll say my opinion, it may feel unrealistic to some.
Reddit is much harder to kill than Digg was. Digg was only good at taking news from sites and putting it into one centralized source. Reddit has many niche communities where people gather to exchange ideas, and these small communities are well protected from the big picture - they just don't have to care what happens outside. Say, I like football (soccer) and I don't care what Reddit is, but I just wanna discuss football. I know that /r/soccer is where I want to be and I don't give a crap about the big picture on the site.
Unless the admins decide to put pop-up ads all over the site or mess with its basic functionality, these people will always have the tools to go on with their small groups untouched.
People moving away are people interested in the big picture of the site, people who are opinionated and actually give a shit about their liberties out of the context of their personal interests. Based on my personal experience, there are not many people in the world who have the time or the energy to be preoccupied with such matters. They will go there cause it's fast, comfortable, and trouble-free.
Snapzu has a potential to grow its niche communities just as Reddit has, but those niche communities will probably have to be built by the people here, and not by those already in charge of them on Reddit. If Snapzu is to grow, we need to give that /r/soccer casual user who comes by the newest articles in football, discussion threads and everything Reddit has. And I'm talking here only related to football - think of how many other small communities there are.
I don't think we should be rushing to that anyway. For example my small /t/dota2 tribe just started getting its few users, and I'm sure a lot more will come, and slowly we will set our own habits and trends and we will find our own way. When more communities will mature to the next stage in the same way, that is when Snapzu will be ready to take Reddit's place.
The end.
Wow that was a fantastic reply. I'd like to add to your point about the big picture of Reddit.
I think that a lot of people are moving away or just trying something different because they don't really care about the big picture of the site, but they are tired of reading about it and seeing endless content about it, myself included. I never went to Reddit to hear about the political hierarchy of a website, I just wanted to read stories and talk to like minded people that shared the same interests as me. I feel like Reddit has been growing away from that for quite some time, maybe because of the large user base, maybe because of Admins/Mods. All I know is that Reddit isn't putting out the content that I originally went there for any more, and it's time for me to make a change.
Maybe Snapzu can be that change. Just looking at the two comments that I've gotten on this post there is more quality and thought than I would get in a thousand Reddit posts. Just look at any askreddit thread.
I also don't think Reddit is going anywhere.
I may choose to move my 'front page of the internet' here to snapzu, but I don't see myself ever abandoning reddit entirely. Why? It's those same key features you talked about with the smaller communities. /r/exmormon, /r/lgg2, /r/pbsideachannel, /r/cynicalbrit ... they're all very tight knit communities that I doubt could ever transfer over without a formal 'this subreddit is moving to snapzu' type of movement. While these smaller communities remain important to people, reddit will always be a thing.
Seriously, I think the porn subreddits will not die anytime soon. They're to well established and the need it fulfills is of the immediate-rewards type. People don't think rationally when they're horny.