"Reddit is a Dying Mall" (by me!)
I predict that what will happen to #Reddit is the same thing that is happening to Twitter and has already happened to Facebook and frankly, actual shopping malls. The business side of things will churn along divorced from the content which will become ever more generic and culturally irrelevant.
Is there some variation on the fediverse that can be set up more like a searchable forum with sub-fedis on various topics limited self organization?
For things like repairing consumer goods, the actual effects of prescription medicines (and to talk to people on the same medication) and other stuff like gardening reddit is still the best source.
For example, I don't know where else I would go to ask if anyone else had the same obscure side effect to a medicine.
@aredridel @futurebird
It's probably lemmy & kbin, but they aren't as advanced as mastodon so things can get wonky. I know it's possible to follow certain threads/topics from mastodon, but it sounds like right now the interface is better between the two than between either and mastodon/calkey/etc.
For lemmy one directory for finding instances is: https://browse.feddit.de/
for kbin I'm not sure if there is a good one yet
there are various lists of migrations here: https://www.quippd.com/writing/2023/06/15/unofficial-subreddit-migration-list-lemmy-kbin-etc.html
@futurebird
Of the current ones, kbin looks good because there's the microblog section to every magazine (ie sub) so you can have chatty posts or throwaway discussion while the threads section can be more forum-like. The microblog also slurps Fedi content from other blogging platforms especially Mastodon with the right tag. Lemmy seems purely link aggregating and reddit norms are already beginning to seed itself there (daily chat threads and focused threads). Text search seems decent but much of the functionality is still very early.
But apparently forum software devs are also looking into venturing into AP code, so who knows, but there's that too.
@JustinH Except that once in a while I actually go to a shopping mall to buy hair dye at Hot Topic.
At best, Reddit will continue to exist in a shrinking bubble and limp along with some relevance, like Slashdot. More likely the same C-suite idiocy will persist until its sold for pennies on the dollar and will end up like Digg.
@JustinH So far Mastodon and Squabbles.io are my favorite alternatives.
I will not use Lemmy. I read that the owner/developer is a political extremist, homophobe, and antisemite who defended genocide.
https://raddle.me/f/lobby/155371/warning-lemmy-doesn-t-care-about-your-privacy-everything-is
@JustinH good article!
FYI clicking on your name from the article (which I found on Lemmy) took me to a substack page but I couldn’t find your Mastodon handle
so I had to go to your personal website to try and find a way to follow you here! perhaps adding your Mastodon info directly to the substack profile might help people follow you easier
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