[spaceman_2020]

You have to commend YouTube and Twitter's longevity as social networks.

YouTube has better and more content than ever. Twitter also has the best and most relevant content, provided you curate your feed. All the stuff happening on academic Twitter, for instance, is hard to find elsewhere.

Reddit also seems to be going down the path of irrelevancy. The content is increasingly mediocre and hivemind-ish.

[imbnwa]

> Reddit also seems to be going down the path of irrelevancy. The content is increasingly mediocre and hivemind-ish.

If you're just looking at the 'popular front page', sure, but there's a reason people now search Reddit from Google: there's value in a 'centralized hub' for communities versus Twitter's loosely coupled social graphs.

Reddit replaced all vBulletin-backed forums. You could argue Discord might usurp Reddit but Discord isn't searchable from the web and is logged in a terribly inconducive format.

I follow MMA, and the MMA reddit is the biggest forum for MMA on the English-speaking internet, especially for live events, there's no substitute, and I'm sure its like that with a lot of niches.

[matheusmoreira]

> Reddit also seems to be going down the path of irrelevancy.

Reddit's irrelevance is only a matter of time. They're jacking up the advertising and banning anything that offends the advertisers.

Consider also how imageboards managed to remain relevant to this day.

[dageshi]

Reddit always had a hive mind, it's just the hive mind no longer agrees with you so you think it's irrelevant?

Nope, frankly given how long reddit's been around and how it continues to gain in popularity I expect it will outlive everything on that list except for youtube. It's the webs default forum and there will always be a demand for a forum on the web.

[pixl97]

It's not that reddits users agree or disagree with me it's that [removed by Reddit]

[pas]

99.99% of that is drunk/clueless people asking for contacts for drugs, and spam. at least that's my experience based on a subreddit with 45K users.

[coffeebeqn]

YouTube has matured and now has professional YouTube-first content. The first time I was on YouTube it had every imaginable show (illegally) and that’s how they hit their incredible initial growth. Then it was amateurs for the next ten years doing silly stuff and now it’s quite a enjoyable platform for information and niche entertainment

[_hypx]

Both Twitter and Reddit might be in decline. I know people keep on saying that some subset of those platform are still useful, but that doesn't attract eyeballs nor advertisement. Once the main page declines, the rest should follow. This is quickly accelerated if there is some alternative platform that provides a similar experience.