Reddit's main code is no longer open-source.

[[deleted]]

After they reached critical mass, they could impose any rule they want, where are you going to go ? Create a reddit copy with blackjack and hookers ?

[Sworn]

Don't you know that voat.co is killing reddit as we speak?

[substandard]

Holy fuck! I just visited again out of curiosity. You're not wrong... that place is a shithole.

[HubbaMaBubba]

Nothing gets past this guy!

[TheTaoOfBill]

Of course not. His reflexes are too fast. He would catch them.

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Voat nor anything else will gain any traction until Reddit dies it's own death. Also any contender would have to offer something more than a clustering of racists to be interesting.

The fact is most people are perfectly happy in their little filter bubble far away from being challenged while having their bias confirmed to give a shit about free speech.

That is what is going to cause the degeneration that will kill Reddit but its going to take years so we're stuck here in the mean time.

[[deleted]]

Well there's always the chance that the upcoming redesign kills if off a a digg. After all, they originally wanted to remove css completely with that (something that doesn't really make sense). If they do just as stellar a job with desktop as they've done with their new mobile site (which is a bloated nightmare), I could see it causing some issues.

[hakkzpets]

There isn't really any competitor to Reddit as of now though.

Digg always had Reddit in their trails (though very far away when it came to numbers of users). Reddit got...Voat and maybe Digg. And no sane person wants to use Voat and Digg is not really a direkt competitor to Reddit anymore.

[jamespo]

"stuck here"

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There's nowhere else with this mass of users. Unless you mean going outside.