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Memorial to "rif is fun for Reddit" Android app, aka "reddit is fun", shut down after June 30, 2023

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How to avoid the Reddit downfall (lemmy.world)
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  1. Use distributed, federated services like Lemmy, mastodon etc.
  2. Support the hosts with our own funds.
  3. Moderate our own communities.

The second point is the most important. Reddit happened because they are a corporate entity seeking profit. Let's own our social media platforms by actively contributing funds to them.

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[–] R00bot@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't seem like an issue yet, but I'm interested to see how the fediverse combats the inevitable GPT spam it'll start receiving as it grows and misinformation/advertising becomes more attractive on these platforms. It's not an easy problem to solve (though handling it better than Elon should be pretty easy lmao).

[–] illah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

True any text based thing is vulnerable I suppose. I suppose the SEO/content farming stuff tho is more what I was referring to. It was already happening with scrapers ripping off real content to get ad impressions or rein affiliate links. thats a big part of why Wikipedia and Reddit got some priority (either algo or humans adding “Reddit” to a search).

But hopefully stuff like the fediverse makes it a bit more grassroots in that a shitposting bot has less of a direct financial incentive in the way the web does.