People in their desire to see Reddit "hurt" lose track of what should be the real goal: carve out a new platform, where those that do care can work towards building something that suits us better. Even if it never rivals Reddit, and there isn't mass adoption.
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Honestly don't want it to become as big as Reddit. It is quite comfy being much smaller. It feels like more of a friendly community. I see the same faces in a lot of these threads, it gives a nice sense of familiarity. I really like the feeling.
I've been a lurker on reddit for over 10 years. Here I feel like I can actually post and comment without worrying about negativity :)
I've been a lurker on reddit for over 10 years. Here I feel like I can actually post and comment without worrying about negativity :)
Here's a bit of negativity; give it time. The larger a community and platform the wider the views. What starts as a tight-knit community eventually expands into something gigantic where things aren't so tight-knit any more.
It's like gravity, the larger something is the more it pulls in.
Boom! downvoted for having an opinion! /s
Oh, apologies, still getting used to not being on reddit ;)
Have one that disagrees with popular opinion du jour and watch what happens.
The other side of that coin is the lack of content. If it's small it doesn't have as much content.
There may be a lack of content, but at the same time more users don't always mean quality content.
I was on reddit for over a decade and as time went on more and more bots showed up, more content was reposted over and over, and more communities were swallowed up until only the same types of posts were ever pushed through to the top every day. I think it's refreshing to go somewhere where that isn't an issue yet.
I've not really been bored since new content flows from other groups. With federation, if you're somewhere slow, you can just pop in somewhere else for a bit without dedicating time to set up.
I'd beg to differ, honestly. I'd love to see the fediverse take off. We desperately need an alternative to centralised everything where the actions of one company which almost always is profit-motivated can control everything you see and use your data for their own purposes.
I get what you mean by how a smaller community is nice to have, though. But that's also a benefit of the fediverse - you have a small community of your own with it's own culture, while not losing the connection to what's happening outside. And there's some cross-over that makes it easier to talk to others who aren't in your own community, without needing to adapt to their culture first.
This reminds me an old quote, often attributed to Gandhi: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. We shouldn't take it too seriously and assume victory out of that quote, but even then it gives me some optimism:
It means that the protests had enough of an effect that some people are actually talking about them, even to discredit them.
I don't think that Reddit will die now either. (Not even Digg died yet. It's still there.) However my hopes is that people can damage Reddit Inc.'s value assessment enough to make the IPO a fiasco, and punish the company for giving its own users a middle finger. And then Reddit spiral down into obsolescence.
Cynical/Pessimistic ≠ Savvy/Sophisticated.
Seems that way too many people are unable to make the distinction and are unwilling see this perception flaw about themselves.
Doesn't really matter TBH. Got me to discover lemmy & kbin and stop using Reddit. So they can black out or not, I'm no longer there (same with Facebook, Twitter etc). Just happy to have a new good replacement.
I supported the blackout not just because of the sudden changes to third party API usage (I only use Old Reddit so it does impact me less) but because this was clearly a change that severely negatively impacted the moderators on Reddit. The moderators on Reddit are unpaid and the work they do is mostly deleting spam. It's not fun stuff and we are fortunate to have so many volunteers (even if some abuse whatever little power they have). They were the ones who organized this blackout. Reading some of their complaints, I empathize greatly. So even if the API changes don't get reverted maybe the blackout gave Reddit's corporate heads a moment's pause to actually do something to help the people who do all of the work for them.
So even if things don't get reverted, perhaps there was something positive to this whole event.
Also, being off Reddit for days has been really nice. I feel better, not being there. I might stay longer here.
I'm not, but that's cause I have no idea what's going on over there anymore. Made an account here and here I shall stay.
I really don't see the protests as a failure. You give Reddit, inc. an opportunity to compromise with the community and they show that they won't budge an inch (or, more accurately, they CAN'T due to VC pressure)
We learned what Reddit has become, and now we work towards building a future proofed community somewhere else. As long as the Fediverse has activity I will be prioritizing my time here. These little things have big ramifcations for years in the future, where we will see more enshittification and more draconian privacy laws in various countries and states.
I see what's happening here as a success.
Well said, I think the key thing going forward is that the fediverse/whatever comes next becomes a new repository of community sourced information/discussion/resources/etc. There's a reason people add site:reddit.com to their google searches, and the top story about how joesmith42069 got 50k karma on their totally dank meme isn't it.
I got 54.4k for a sticker on a gas pump.
Well, as long as enshitification continues to be a thing driven by profit hungry corps, people will be pushed to projects like the fediverse
Even if it doesn't happen now, or even the next couple of months, reddit has proven that they're committed to pushing out their core userbase - the people who actually make good content, and who maintain the systems that allow that content to rise to the top.
Once even more of reddit is ads and bot spam, it'll start to die. We're just leaving early to avoid the rush.
You’re absolutely right. I’d rather spend my time enjoying this community then worrying about Reddit. Whatever happens will happen at this point. I’m just happy I’ve found this community from all of this, it’s been so refreshing here!
I honestly didn't realize how detrimental Reddit was to my mental health. It feels like a breath of fresh air.