this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2025
386 points (96.8% liked)
Fedimigration Organizing
92 readers
344 users here now
This is a place to share resources and coordinate projects to assist in the migration away from legacy social media.
founded 2 days ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
More problematically, nobody was getting paid to Reddit, But Instagram, YouTube and TikTok are some peoples income, and they really don't have any strong inclination to leave paying platforms. A lot of the truly wild viral content is coming from people trying to make a living out of it.
We are going to have true social interactions on the fediverse. But without algorithmic discovery and paid performers, a lot of people aren't going to come over. And honestly, I'm just fine with that.
I do wish we could get a solid foot in the Facebook door. There's an awful lot of semi-private data there that people aren't getting paid to post that could be free of big media pincers and wallets.
The other side of this is that click through rates on legacy social has cratered. Almost certainly due to bot driven inflated engagement metrics.
Yet the company is still making record profits, well the content creators are starving evermore.