We were neither the users nor the customers. We were the products. Or more accurately, we had become the products.
The Fediverse is interesting. It feels more like how the web should be. No one entity or corporation should have absolute control.
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Yep fair point. 'If its free, you're the product' etc. It did feel like that by the end.
Be interesting to see how decentralised it all stays as well. A lot of things want to centralise by nature so might come down to that. Everything snowballs after that
My account on Reddit is 17 years old. I joined when it was basically a Lisp programming forum. I am a charter member, I gave them money when they desperately needed it about 15 years ago. I've had premium since they offered it.
I'm done. Cancelled my premium, deleted my account, uninstalled the app, moved here. Fuck Spez.
Wow thats a long time. Were u sniffing round the fediverse anyway then or just prompted by the latest mess?
This may sound weird but were you okay leaving it?
He's not wrong. Reddit will survive, it might just be a bit different. But that's what they want anyway. They want to be the next Instagram or WhatsApp - locked down to the max. The people that are left don't care about openness or 3rd party apps.
I agree. It will survive. But it will change, even more so now. Fewer posts on the smaller specialist subreddits, and more posts on the wide defaults. Or perhaps, more "questions you could search the wiki for" posts on specialist subs, and fewer specialists hanging around to answer the same questions over and over.
They've managed to bring a wider audience in, and an audience less likely to block adverts I would bet. But it seems to be a bit of a race to the bottom. And there is always another bottom.
Yep, I've been looking for an alternative to all the tiresome karma whoring, my own included, for ages but every one, like voat, was ran by some right wing nutjob
I'm liking this fediverse thing
The big fediverse advantage, is that nobody is stopping people setting up a platform.
The restriction on people being really shitty, is by other sites not federating with them.
Which I think is really smart. The truly horrible places can exist, but they're self-restricted to only places that are willing to endorse their crap.
Yep i know.
Latest issue always felt like a mod and older user revolt. Which is the people other platforms would benefit from moving over.
It worked!
Reddit was the only social media I used too. After finding this, I can take or leave reddit. I prefer smaller community anyway.
Cheers!
Still had to edit it as cocked the title up ha.
Yeah more manageable community sizes should be better. It always felt true about the shouting into the void on subs with hundreds on comments and bots.
So far this has felt more like an upgraded discord chat.
At least you can edit titles here 😁
Oh yeah thought I'd really messed up. Unless beacuse it was within certain time etc. Haven't tested that further.
I realised a while ago that I spent most of my time on Reddit doomscrolling through this dystopian hellscape we're slipping into on UkPolitics so I unsubscribed from there and avoided it while I struggled with problems with Anxiety.
I went back in to doomscroll when I started feeling better.
I can doomscroll here, I've started posting here and there myself because that's what needs to happen
I'll really miss the Home Assistant subreddit so I hope that moves over.
Yeah increased reddit use probably always was a good indicator of current mental health decline for many of us.
The HA subreddit is probably a good candidate to see people move. They're fairly techy people.
15 years in the bin :-\ but if i'm honest, i only liked the jerk reddits these days.
the mains subs were soo big as to be useless, there were powerful unregulated networks of mods who ran like 40 - 50 subs.... thats not at all healthy.
actual content, although we miss it, was really thin.
wont take a whole lot to replace it. i'm not a big poster, but i'm committed to trying to get this off the ground.
as for reddit, it will survive for now. there are plenty of middle of the road uses to make money, plus, a lot of people will go back, sadly.
Do you genuinely feel its time/effort in the bin?
I know it will actually feel like a bereavement to some (not saying you specifically) but if it was all good at the time then was it not still worth it?
I'm sure reddit will continue for now, but with a lot less of use
I like many others became fed up where Reddit was heading. I will not miss it!
'Feduppit'? Anyone? No, ok then. I'll see myself out
@Lubricate7931 You sum up how a lot of people feel and use that site. I am one who is the same as you.
Cheers.
Probably took for reddit to commits its hari-kari for some us to actually move on and want to engage a bit more.
I knew Reddit was heading in a crap direction since they launched the whole new layout/design. Then the ads started creeping in more and more, then I noticed when they added social media account integration into personal profiles and don't even get me started with the NFT avatars. It's become a steaming pile. It makes me sad to see what's happened. I met my partner on there just over 3 years ago and now we live together! So I will always be thankful for that, but I'm done with that site.
When they added following profiles. I know it's normal for twitter or whatever but in reddit it felt stalkerish.
Not all bad then! But yeah its a just company running a website now (with lots of essential free dedicated labour). What ever is was before it isn't now
Yet your link wants me to install some dumb ducking Microsoft app so that I can read the story
Posted similar elsewhere: With Facebook and Twitter, they built frameworks that users filled with content that the corps then loaded with ads and sold the data points but they fucked up because they didn't fully grasp that they were content moderation businesses (especially after they all fought hard not to be labelled 'publishers').
Reddit had users creating & posting (links to) free content as well as carrying out the moderation and growing those communities for free, yet still couldn't turn a profit.
Yeah were in the best position of all the big social media companies really and have spectacularly underperformed compared to the rest. Then display company policy management by hand grenade. Poor attempt