I don’t believe that it will replace it but that is maybe a good thing. I’d be Ok with fediverse staying in niche with active user base, because once it’s mainstream it’s gonna attract corporations to enshittificate it like they did it with Twitter or Reddit.
And I’d be cautious with “Internet is flawed”, it’s for us more conscious users but for vast majority of people Internet unfortunately is fine.
Yes and no, I loved reddit’s simplicity and compatibility with third-party applications. There was basically a subreddit for everything.
My feelings about reddit started to change when they implemented the new reddit frontend. Another change was that some big subreddits have mods who are on a power trip - so a simple discussion was impossible. Now they have taken away my favorite application - Apollo.
I’m pretty sure reddit will survive, but with worse content anyway, because reddit as a business doesn’t care about quality of content, they only care about engagement.
On the other hand, I’m “happy” reddit did what they did, and because such a decision to limit the API or introduce nonsense only promotes the development of a federated and decentralized social internet. It reminds me of the “old internet”, which I miss a lot, and I’m very happy to see its revival and people using it.
I removed all my posts and comments but kept account alive, at best I’ll be lurking.