This from @mmasnick gets it exactly right:
"Reddit is discovering the same thing that Twitter is also discovering: when you build a service where the value is all the free content that users provide, you’re going to run into some problems when you suddenly start acting like you 'own' all that, and you feel the need to put up paywalls for access.... at some point those users are going to realize they have the power to go elsewhere."
mastodon is pretty good at doing twitter. i havent seen anyone doing reddit even half as well. the alternatives are just not there yet. even though users are ready
@OGjester In reality I think the graph would be more exponential than linear.
honestly it's extremely not surprising that the first pillar to fall in terms of class consciousness is online communities
like sure, people are gonna be striking and protesting more and more often, but online communities are going to be the first places where corporate power is completely seized and community power will win
it's clear that companies are already panicking and hoping to not find out how long it'll take before the world is oops all unions
This could be just me, but:
“I’m not so sure that Reddit has the sheer gravitational pull that social media has.”
There’s just no good replacement for Reddit. I can maybe get the social fix elsewhere, but if I’m looking for a review of some random niche product written by an actual human… that only exists on Reddit.
I'd add: "so far."
YMMV but many see the #Threadiverse of apps growing fast to replicate that and maybe more.
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