People discredit every type of protest, IRL or not. I think back to every major protest that’s happened in response to some major event, and the response every time is “That won’t ever work”, “You’re wasting your time”, “Imagine caring about that”.

This isn’t the death of Reddit, not even close to it. Reddit may even get more popular after this. However, that doesn’t mean all of this was pointless.

The Fediverse continues to grow, and that’s genuinely a good thing. Every time a platform fucks up, people give X ActivityPub app a new set of eyes and continue to help developers strengthen these platforms and build up the community.

A lot of times the things we want don’t happen in 1 big moment, it’s a lot of continuous smaller moments that eventually form into something greater.

It’s going to take a lot of effort to build out a new platform, especially one built off the concept of decentralization. I think we should continue to build our communities here, and do our best to help this platform thrive.

  • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org
    3·
    1 year ago

    People in their desire to see Reddit “hurt” lose track of what should be the real goal: carve out a new platform, where those that do care can work towards building something that suits us better. Even if it never rivals Reddit, and there isn’t mass adoption.

    • Zana@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Honestly don’t want it to become as big as Reddit. It is quite comfy being much smaller. It feels like more of a friendly community. I see the same faces in a lot of these threads, it gives a nice sense of familiarity. I really like the feeling.

      • vyvanse@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’ve been a lurker on reddit for over 10 years. Here I feel like I can actually post and comment without worrying about negativity :)

      • rammer@sopuli.xyz
        0·
        1 year ago

        The other side of that coin is the lack of content. If it’s small it doesn’t have as much content.

        • Zelsabriel@beehaw.org
          1·
          1 year ago

          There may be a lack of content, but at the same time more users don’t always mean quality content.

          I was on reddit for over a decade and as time went on more and more bots showed up, more content was reposted over and over, and more communities were swallowed up until only the same types of posts were ever pushed through to the top every day. I think it’s refreshing to go somewhere where that isn’t an issue yet.

  • BasicWhiteGirl@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m not, but that’s cause I have no idea what’s going on over there anymore. Made an account here and here I shall stay.

  • Deliverator@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Well said, I think the key thing going forward is that the fediverse/whatever comes next becomes a new repository of community sourced information/discussion/resources/etc. There’s a reason people add site:reddit.com to their google searches, and the top story about how joesmith42069 got 50k karma on their totally dank meme isn’t it.