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What Reddit Got Wrong (www.eff.org)

submitted 1 year ago by pheen@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social

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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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[–] masires@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reddit and Twitter are boosting decentralization and I'm all here for it

[–] BedSharkPal@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] wr4th4@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Sylveon-Z@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] LollerCorleone@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fediverse has been a thing for much longer than Metaverse. Can't blame them for not knowing Zuck will be giving his failed experiment a similar sounding name in the future.

[–] TheRecycledMoth@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Metaverse has been a word since ‘92, but I do agree that we can’t blame anyone for not knowing what zuck would do.

[–] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah ngl it's a pretty dumb name.

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I kind of like The Federation, but that also sounds like the name of an evil empire in a sci fi show.

[–] Cylusthevirus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I mean that's just literally Star Trek and probably copyright of whoever owns that IP these days.