I jumped over here a couple of weeks ago after I saw it as a potential alternative in some thread or another. I think a lot of the comparisons of reddit to digg are somewhat unfounded, seeing as reddit's present user base is significantly larger than digg's ever was, especially at the time of their collapse and to use everyone's favorite political buzzwords reddit just might be "too big to fail" at least in a certain sense.
That being said, what I see happening is a lot of the people that have been on reddit for some time, jumping ship or pulling back on their involvement which will increase low quality content, which for a business is fine. People love their dank memes and other silly shit so the major subs and the front page won't be terribly affected in the long run, it's the smaller, niche communities that relied on these long-term individuals that'll suffer the most.
Even then, I'm not really entirely transitioning away from reddit at this point. For now whatever alternatives that do exist feel very empty and lack that general sense of community and identity. As long as the smaller communities I frequent stay up and active for a while, I'll still hang around. Really I'm here to see if I like snapzu because I like trying new things and seeing what different mediums have to offer.
I jumped over here a couple of weeks ago after I saw it as a potential alternative in some thread or another. I think a lot of the comparisons of reddit to digg are somewhat unfounded, seeing as reddit's present user base is significantly larger than digg's ever was, especially at the time of their collapse and to use everyone's favorite political buzzwords reddit just might be "too big to fail" at least in a certain sense.
That being said, what I see happening is a lot of the people that have been on reddit for some time, jumping ship or pulling back on their involvement which will increase low quality content, which for a business is fine. People love their dank memes and other silly shit so the major subs and the front page won't be terribly affected in the long run, it's the smaller, niche communities that relied on these long-term individuals that'll suffer the most.
Even then, I'm not really entirely transitioning away from reddit at this point. For now whatever alternatives that do exist feel very empty and lack that general sense of community and identity. As long as the smaller communities I frequent stay up and active for a while, I'll still hang around. Really I'm here to see if I like snapzu because I like trying new things and seeing what different mediums have to offer.