This is where breaking news, the latest numbers, information, and questions about the #RedditMigration will be posted. There will also be a place to discuss tactics to best help users make that jump and feel at home in the Fediverse. Welcome!
I would hope for Reddit to really suffer from this and become a shelf of itself maybe even like what happened to dog . I hope In a couple of years people will make memes about what happened with Reddit.
But to be honest I think this is just wishful thinking and Reddit might be fine down the road. Don’t get me wrong lots of people will migrate and this can be great for places like Kbin or squabbles or any other Reddit alternative but my hope for Reddit just going away is not very high.
Not sure what is happening today but people are putting up with a ton of shot and very few are down to actually do something about it.
Like look at Netflix for example, with their new password sharing cracking down policy. Tons of people being vocal about cancelling their accounts and I do believe most of the vocals ones did it. But truth is most people and big part or the ones not being vocal just put up with it and subscribed to their service. According to recent reports (I could probably cite them here but it’s easy to find) their subscription numbers are up even more so than at the beginning of the COVID lockdown. So even tho they did lost some of their subscribers they did gain a net amount of new ones.
I am just baffled and honestly a bit pessimistic about Reddit and Twitter in general to feel much of this.
Sure some mods will leave, the quality of many subreddits will fall but eventually new people will join and new mods will be appointed.
Instead I want to focus on new places like Kbin getting new people or people from Reddit and just making this my new home.
But how knows, hopefully I am wrong and Reddit will actually feel the consequences of being greedy.
But I swear in todays society feels like being greedy is rewarded instead of punished. Something is very wrong with how we as a society are doing things.
“ But I swear in todays society feels like being greedy is rewarded instead of punished. Something is very wrong with how we as a society are doing things.”
So does the microblog feature and mastodon integration on here mean this doubles as a twitter and reddit replacement? Or is it missing features it needs to be a twitter replacement?
Thanks for setting this up! Also just learning of Kbin today after stepping away from reddit. Certainly interested to see how everything pans out! Excited to find some new platforms to check out too 😄
My main is 17 years old. My alt is 8. Going to use one of those tools I read about and nuke them both. Bums me out, but this kbin/Lemmy option seems viable.
Also going to check in with the mods of my favorite niche subs and see about magazine replacements over here.
Replacing a website containing text with a livestream to scale better is hilarious. The tech behind serving a livestream is so, so, much more expensive per user.
But, of course, someone else is eating that cost ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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