Wow. Front page of huffpost.com right now. Interesting...
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2023
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This exactly. I've been a redditor on one account or another for over a decade. For a very long time, read it was 100% of my social media and online community time. That seemed safe because Reddit had always been run in a user-friendly manner.
But then somebody gave Spez a microphone and he managed to destroy 10+ years of community trust and good will in like 3 weeks. Every single thing he says doubles down, reiterates that he doesn't give a shit what the users want.
So it's time to diversify. This right here is my very first post on Lemmy, never would have bothered with it if not for Spez. But now I am more carefully considering where I invest my time and discussion, and what networks I want to see grow.
With any luck, this decentralized stuff is going to be the answer to enshittification.
Starting this comment a bit flamebatey: I think reddit will stay around and I'm very very grateful to u/spez for keeping his position in spite of all the opposition.
Because he single-handedly seeded lemmy and kbin with enough users to take these platforms out of a niche and make them viable.
Now in the future we wil still have reddit (with a lot worse moderation and a lot more annoying ads) but we suddenly also have an alternative.
Yes, the fediverse already was there before, but when I check out the old content I find it very hard to find something I'd have been interested in - which suddenly changed in the last few days.
It's like the musk twitter/mastodon. moment all over again. And with federation it at the same time more annoying and feels much more like the old world again, when individual people not huge companies would own the web.
(Btw this is my very first comment ever on lemmy, too - and it suddenly doesn't feel like it transfer ownership of my words to a corporate giant, anymore)
Reddit will remain but it'll be just a meme page, I doubt if any of the more specialised, specialist communities will stay. It'll be just another 9gag. I've been on it since 2010, I watched it grow and evolve and it honestly looked very reasonable the whole time, progress was for the better. then spez decided to kill it in a few weeks. Over a decade of progress will be gone.
Welcome!
FWIW- I agree Spez deserves a thanks for seeding this platform up to critical mass. And I also think he may deserve a thanks for continuing to turn Reddit into a meme scroller- that will keep a lot of the idiots from making the jump. Very sad to see the platform I loved and spent many years on turn into little more than a filter for idiots, but if the answer is that the fediverse becomes what Internet forums once were, and Reddit was for a long time, then change comes as the world turns.
I miss that era- when it wasn't all big tech platforms for everything, when your online friend group would more likely be a forum or an IRC, and where experimentation was encouraged. Where if you had a spare laptop and a cable modem that meant you could run your community's IRC bot or Shoutcast server or TeamSpeak relay or whatever. And where nobody gave a flying fuck what was acceptable content to advertisers- some places took that too far, but it meant the Internet as a whole wasn't sanitized to be advertiser-friendly.
I don't know if it will last, but for now, all this fediverse stuff feels like that did. The tech isn't 100% perfect, hasn't been through 15 UX committees to ensure Grandma can figure it out, but it's accessible to everyone and if you want to fuck with it or help build it or run it on your old laptop, you're welcomed rather than ignored.
Totally agree !