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Yeah, I get that.
I’m just thinking that the enshittification of Reddit has started, and once started it won’t stop. The Reddit investors want their return on their investment and that’s that. I don’t blame them, but I have no illusions about a rosy future.
In the meanwhile, I want to give this alternative a real chance.
My question goes in that direction, too. I think this may feel more like a community with the weekly threads, which would hopefully feel less empty.
That’s a good point. I could see having weekly threads make it feel like less of a ghost town around here. I’d be on board with giving it a try.
Regarding the enshittification, I sadly agree. Now that I’ve been gone a little while, I’m wondering if I’ll notice any differences when I go back, or if it’s a slower process.
Maybe, but network effects are powerful. Elon Musk, despite his best efforts, has not succeeded in driving away people from X-twitter, and I don’t believe that reddit will proceed as radically. There will be more adds, but the frog will be boiled slowly. I don’t see myself going back to reddit, but it’s more because I’m ideologically committed (I have been using exclusively Linux for 20+ years).
Yes, they are powerful indeed. The fediverse is the first alternative I’ve seen that has (at least in my mind) the potential to create a stronger network effect that any walled garden, though.
Cheering from a Debian work station
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