I didn’t delete my account but did delete RIF once it stopped working. I was mostly a lurker on reddit and the few comments and posts i did make are of little to no value to the platform.
I figured wasting a few MB of space on a harddrive would be a more effective protest than doing them a favor and deleting my admittedly worthless content.
Honestly? Zuckerberg has always had an obsession with the next step as it relates to how people use the internet. He has a track record of trying to catch lightning in a bottle again and getting struck by lightning instead, to the detriment of his own company.
Just look at the Metaverse, he got obsessed with a relatively new technologies (vr and blockchain) and wasted billions of dollars chasing the same high he once got when Facebook took over.
Maybe he sees money in the fediverse, but i think Zuckerberg is just getting excited about a new technology like the rest of us. Unlike the rest of us however, he will likely end up spending billions of dollars continuing to chase that high that he got from Facebook.
My thinking is that because it is decentralized, even if sections of the fediverse decide to sell out to our corporate overlords, it wouldnt compromise the entire platform.
I wouldnt go so far as to say that the fediverse is completely immune to manipulation, but i do think the nature of it makes mass tampering\control more difficult.
I’ve already felt the sting of the protests when googling solutions to various issues. I used to be able to include “reddit” in the search and would almost always find relevant information quickly, but now as OP mentioned many posts and whole communities have gone dark.
It’s all been really eye opening about the potential negative consequences of having so many communities and information in the control of so few.
Just uninstalled RIF about an hour ago. I’m looking forward to this next chapter. It’s still very early days for the fediverse but it seems very promising.
This was the last push i needed to actually move on from reddit. Now i’ll finally be able to retrain my muscle memory to open kbin instead of RIF when i sit on the toilet.
I think its more likely that the posts on reddit are the same, and we are simply starting to become accustomed to the posts\quality of comments on the fediverse.
Our eyes are finally starting to open.
I agree fully, but I think there is a subset of users that like reddit itself, don’t fully appreciate just how much work moderators put in to make the site usable.
These people will start to notice it more in the weeks to come, but i think many will stick with reddit for the time being while places like the fediverse become more established.
Not everyone uses a 3rd party app, nor are they eager to disrupt their daily flow by abandoning a platform they have grown accustomed to using.
The people most angry are those who are invested in reddit the most. There are a lot of folks who are way more casual and maybe only care about a couple niche subreddits that relate to their hobbies, but are uninterested in sitewide drama.
Louis is just as human as the rest of us and occasionally has a shitty take or has to walk a statement back.
He struck me as someone very persoanlly invested in everything going on with reddit, and is reacting with his abrasive “fuck you” attitude.
While i don’t agree with his points in this video, i will say he has a pretty good track record of swallowing his pride and admitting he fucked up, which is more than i can say for a lot of creators.
Im not personally going dig my cross and nails out of the shed for this one, there is currently somebody else more worthy of our wood and nails imo. cough spez.
If you are using kbin try the option to create an “article”. Thats the most similar option to the traditional reddit post.
I don’t blame anyone for getting frustrated. The whole concept of the fediverse is quite confusing to someone that knew nothinf about it prior, and I myself am only just starting to get a grasp on things. The whole experience reminds me of the first time i heard about bitcoin and trying to wrap head around the blockchain.
I (and i assume many others) have been unhappy with reddit’s direction for some time now, and forcedully ending the life of my third party app of choice (RIF) just happened to be the straw that broke the camels back.
To many of us this is the last straw, but to many others who may be newer users, or may have already been using the official Reddit app this probably does not seem like a huge deal.
Only time will tell if the folks leaving were generating the lions share of the worthwhile content, or if we are just the vocal minority and life will go on. Some folks aren’t looking for a new home, and even if these events are what lead to Reddit’s eventual demise it will take years for said demise to play out.
It could definitely just be a honeymoon phase, but I also sense that opinions seem to be more valued here.
I’m certainly not trying to karma farm. I haven’t seen any total “karma” score on kbin, and don’t think that there should be. I think a total karma score encourages reposts and very predictable comments all in the name of increasing the score.
I myself only felt compelled to create this post because i wanted to do my part to try and create content for others to interact with. The biggest advantage reddit has over alternatives is the sheer amount of content, and the only way to compete is for all of us to populate this place with the content we want ro see.
Social anxiety will most likely prevail in the end and i’ll return to lurking, but im not going to let it stop me from having a good time while it hibernates.
I can’t imagine how it feels to put so many hours into building a thriving community just to have it thanklessly ripped from your hands.
As an 12 year reddit user who almost never posted or commented, thank you for all of the hard work you and others like you put in to make reddit as great as it was.
Hopefully fediverse will prove more resistant to greedy corporate interests in the years to come. I’m looking forward to building this new community with all of you!
It’s been a real struggle breaking the decade long habit of just opening reddit every time im bored, but I’m trying to ween myself off in preparation for when they kill 3rd party apps at the end of the month since i won’t be able to use RIF any longer.
I would say im spending about 80% of my time on kbin now. After the 3rd party app shutdown i’ll probably only use reddit when it comes up in top google search results.
Top righter reporting in. I won’t change and I’m not sorry.
Can confirm that these figures are very inflated. I currently live in Hawaii on half of that “living wage”. Have a nice (by Hawaii standards) 2 bedroom apartment and still have over 1000 in excess income after rent\utils\groceries\gas each month.
112k is around what i would need to be making to afford a house\mortgage, but its possible to “live” without.