When the user revolt ends—if it ever does—Reddit’s community won’t ever be the same.

“They’re shooting themselves in the foot,” Mir says. “The content of the users is what makes the platform worth visiting. These hosts kind of run into this confusion that their hosting is the reason people are going there, but it’s really for the other users on the medium.”

  • sexy_peach@feddit.deOPEnglish
    47·
    1 year ago

    Look, I am happy as long as there are enough people on lemmy and kbin to have a fun website here. I can go and visit reddit now and then to see what kind of stuff they’re upvoting, that’s not a problem. But I want the potentially better alternatives to grow.

    • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
      25·
      1 year ago

      That’s the spirit. We don’t need to complete obliterate reddit to make it the better alternatives viable. We just need to get a minimal mass of people here to keep momentum growing.

      I keep thinking of Taleb’s essay where he talks about how effective a intolerant minority can be on affecting change in general behavior.

      • blindsight@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Brilliant. Thank you for posting that.

        I just downloaded the whole book; I’m not really interested in the markets, so I’ve been avoiding Taleb, but that essay has made me rethink that.

    • holo_nexus@kbin.social
      12·
      1 year ago

      Exactly. Reddit itself should be a case study. Lemmy and Kbin offer an opportunity to build something great and learn from what made current Reddit (the good and the terrible) what it is and some things to avoid.

      • dan@lemm.ee
        5·
        1 year ago

        The only real problem with Reddit is Reddit Inc.

        You’re right, Lemmy/etc represent a great opportunity for the users and mods to regain control over the communities they build.