Yes, everyone has TikTok envy since Musk started to augment Twitter to a video publishing platform.

This model does not fit for Reddit with its poor execution (old.reddit.com is still the best) and its user base.

More sites will split off and use the old.reddit.com code base.

TikTok envy existed long before Musk bought Twitter.

> More sites will split off and use the old.reddit.com code base.

How? Its not open source. And its just a frontend. How would people split it off?

The whole old frontend + backend is a Python app: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/wiki/Install-guide

Musk doesn't have the intellectual capacity to do anything but turn Twitter into a furnace for his own capital at this point.

Reddit can replace posters with an AI that has been trained on their volunteer work. Then you need another AI that clicks on ads. No humans required.