Phlogiston

This is an interesting inversion of the fascist doctrine that the enemy are both really strong and also really weak. Only here Trump and co are applying to themselves -- they're both super powerful and the only hope and also completely weak and ineffectual and always being led astray by the deep state or poor guidance from their own lawyers.

I wonder if this will work as well on their followers.

this feels like the prisoners dilemma playing out on the front page

I assume the problem is a lack of alternative they can unify around. If Meta ships something definitive enough, especially for teams that already have a FB presence, there might be a mass migration.

I thought I’d be checking to see if it was still running, a burning crater, or unaffected (nobody left Reddit). I’m happy to see an uptick in conversation.

Where votes are labeled “favourites” :)

In a way I like that this is all openly public vs just the devs and admins being able to see it. Either way somebody was going to pay attention but now it’s obvious to users.

This makes sense — but if nobody knows it there is lots of room for confusion.

“Boost” seems more like “updoot” than “retweet“. Perhaps more importantly why would one retweet a comment? Rather than a post?

for me its the top left panel being partially shaded. thats going to really reduce its functionality.

Idk if reddit will actually "die"

I think it depends on us users. If we can make a community work here in the federated space well enough to draw users then reddit might really go away.

But if they manage to kill off 3rd party devs, APIs and etc quickly before these alternatives are baked enough to work for their users and these existing federated tools aren't good enough -- then they'll just maintain via the network effect.

clearly hexachrome has been hiding out in a little used corner of the internet and isn't caught up with current memes. (I think i'm jealous of them)