I’m not sure if this is new, but when I clicked on the /r/pics protest post link from the frontpage here, I was redirected to this: https://old.reddit.com/premium
I’m not sure if this is well-known or not that they’re pushing it now, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it, especially on old.reddit.
I don’t think the street is that dumb in current year. This isn’t 1999 where you could scream OMG LINUX and get a few hundred million. The VC purse strings are tight, the brand has been in decline for a decade, and all the political horse-picking won’t help them.
The stock subs want to short reddit…
I could see the price crashing to the point it gets “owned by users” but that could take years, and this is basically the end result already.
I just can’t see reddit ever bouncing back. It might never end, but it’ll be like Yahoo Answers