Reddit rates too highly on content
But who provides the content? Power users. Reddit follows the same curve as most social media where only like 1-5% of the users actually post the content, and the rest are consumers. When the content creators are gone, itβs just a platform with no content.
The only people who will stick to submitting content are the poor content reposters or various spammers, which the mods have been doing free labor to filter out. Heck, even the bots using the API will die too, so all youβll have is the TOS-breaking bots posting content.
This will not end well when third party apps are gone. I didnβt realize it myself, but most of my time is reading Reddit when Iβm bored in bed, or on the train, on my phone. Iβve been a redditor for 17 years, and my time now has mostly shifted from my desktop to the βRIFβ Android app, and without that, Iβm simply not using Reddit, and have already uninstalled.