That's actually pretty crazy. Is this the first major official team to bail on reddit because of these changes? And such a hugely popular subject, too.
I think most are still waiting it out, like r/Firefox is still shut down tight from the protest, perhaps hoping for a reversal or at least getting to the July 1st deadline.
@JelloBrains Well I'm sure in Reddit's mind(s) the coverage isn't helping and this should have been over after a day or two of allowing some protesting. Over a week of major subs down or going full screw you rebellion is not what they wanna focus on with an IPO on the horizon.
I don't think spez cares about long-term reddit. He just wants to sell out for a quick buck through an IPO and then move on. All his actions seem to be consistent with that.
The problem with full focus on that IPO is that they've now basically called a website that would feature stories of that IPO and told them they were liars and to pound sand, which won't bode well for them covering Reddit's potential IPO in a good light.
Theere are still 2 weeks left to go for spez's precious IPO, so we'll likely see more threats to and actions against mods & subs coupled with lies to users. 2 weeks for spez to scrape the bottom of his dirty tricks barrel.
redditinc's treatment of its users and mods is both disgraceful and insulting.
It is getting worse. Mods are being kicked out of their accounts, many subs have decided to just be troll subs, and lots of highly engaged members have already left. Reddit is almost certainly destined to go the way of Digg.
Alexis doesn't give a shit unfortunately, when you become a big company you do big company things and people really shouldn't expect much else. That's why fedi is good.
I love federation but I just don't see it reaching the masses. People want connectivity and simplicity. I am willing to accept a centralized solution if it's a non profit who takes care of moderators. Centralization isn't always terrible, look at Wikipedia.
I agree, all those are super easy to use for an end user. I think maybe we need a website where a user can just check a couple boxes about what there interests are and it will automatically choose their instance for them. Would make it easier for those new to the fediverse to get up and going.
I'm thinking if any fediverse app takes off, we're going to end up with a few monolithic instances sort of like Gmail and Outlook and those instances are where the masses will go. It takes away the "how do I choose an instance" dilemma. I suspect we're already seeing that to some extent with kbin.social.
I have a feeling this post is some sort of joke, but as a serious comment, I think decentralization would work better if there were some way to automate assigning new users to instances. This part of onboarding is something that people I know (who have looked at Mastodon then turned down the idea of joining it) have cited as an annoyance. And I know I personally spent some time researching different instances in order to pick my instance, personally.
Contrast Revolt, a relatively recent (in contrast to Matrix) Discord alternative, which a few people people I know jumped right on – despite Discord not having any major/recent “sins” other than messing with the usernames. I mentioned that I’m surprised people so readily picked this up, and someone pointed out that there’s just one centralized place to make a Revolt account.
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