After weeks of burning through users’ goodwill, Reddit is facing a moderator strike and an exodus of its most important users. It’s the latest example of a social media site making a critical mistake: users aren’t there for the services, they’re there for the community. Building barriers to access…

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      1 year ago

      Yeah. I can’t help but think Reddit is doing the internet a favour in the long term. The more decentralized and less corporate control the better.
      Feels like we’re coming full circle at this point

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        lol yep it’s funny: Reddit is unironically saving the Internet. It’s become pretty much 3-5 main sites and that’s it. In the 90s I had about a million different forum bookmarks, chat rooms and communities I was a part of. i’m feeling very comfortable having kicked reddit out of my life and gone back to that.

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      I do wish it had a different name than fediverse though, that name reminds me too much of Metaverse.