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anthony_romeo on Sept 4, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web ...

Reddit is not quite dead yet, but if I had to pick a specific point when Reddit began its downfall it quality, it was definitely when r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu exploded in popularity, and Reddit shifted to primarily a place to get terrible 4chan memes.

BitwiseFool on Sept 4, 2020 [–]

I think screenshots of Tweets had a much more detrimental effect than 4chan memes.

dawg- on Sept 5, 2020 | [–]

Yes absolutely. The turning point for me was when I visited r/all one day and the first page was almost entirely screenshots from Twitter

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