This reminds me so much of the mass digg exodus of 2010. It's going to be interesting to see how this goes.
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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Tricky thing is going to be the onboarding process for laypeople. Problem with the fediverse is helping people wrap their heads around servers. People think the server is the "community." And it kind of is, and it kind of isn't. Servers are a community of people, but severs also host capital C "Communities" within them.
This is probably the biggest thing holding back the adoption of the fediverse. This user experience problem hasn't been cracked. Onboarding isn't intuitive.
I completely agree. It was super confusing figuring out how to access communities from other servers, and I consider myself a very tech-literate person. The Digg -> reddit transition didn't require understanding a whole new paradigm when signing up.
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We need to make fetch happen!
Agreed! If ever there were a time for fetch to happen, it feels like now would be a good choice!
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For sure, but what makes Reddit special are the users, the content, and the discussions. The admins add no value.
We can recreate the communities in a distributed and federated way so that we never find ourselves in the same situation again.
This. One thousand percent - this.
We are ground floor. Be active! Make this the community you want it to be!
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I left reddit bc the very users that came to reddit pushed all the stuff that made it cool out. Conspiracy was big stuff when I used to go, but the userbase started to defend the corperations and mock conspiracies as if they where fake. Also all the real users got banned for daring to say anything against the norm.
I'm going to miss Reddit
I am too. I really hope they at least make a compromise to allow third-party apps to function. I have spent years on Reddit, and I find it enjoyable for the most part. The amount of information on that site is incredible too. If it continues down the Twitter road it will be sorely missed.
Yeah it's sad to see how reddit has fallen, but oh well. You either die a hero, or you live to see yourself become the villain.
Reddit turned into a villain a long long time ago. I just haven't been able to shake it off.
Yeah but with old.reddit, third-party apps and well-curated subscriptions you could mostly ignore the bullshit new "features". Now they're trying to force-feed them to us.
This will be for the best propably. Now that reddit might finally collapse from their idiocy many people will move to here, which improves lemmy. Only regrettable thing about it is loss of information as either users will delete their posts or reddit will fuck everything up even worse some how.
It is kind of exciting to be involved in something like what must have happened when digg died and reddit started up. Are we going to get cake days here?
OP didn't realized he was using an alternative. Bye Reddit