nixCraft š§Reddit blackout protest is just like those online petitions. Both are unpredictable about the final results. What are you going to do when you miss r/funny. Use Lemmy? The truth is Reddit admins know there is no alternative. Reddit was ready when Digg 4 happened. I want Reddit to act friendly, but it isn't easy when you take investors' money. They want a return on their investments. It is better to stop using a centralized cloud for everything from SO to Reddit. Let us build independent forums
At least the mastodon idea is pleasant. We need something like that for forums. But, I guess most users want a centralized cloud for network effect. There is no such thing as a viral post on Mastodon. But with Reddit, Twitter, and other social media centralized, we have viral content, aka the network effect.
Travis@nixCraft Users want a centralized network because itās easy. Nothing to host, itās āfreeā, hell even the marketing is easy because you have so many eyeballs in one place. Centralization is easy and autonomous. Thatās why itās loved. Remember #JohnMastodon? That only went crazy here because of the tag and people boosting it like crazy (similar to forwarding an email to our friends).