How do you feel about the massive influx of users?

  • fuser@quex.cc
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    1 year ago

    Was originally introduced to reddit by a calculus professor who set up a sub for the class to collaborate - it was a different time.

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      1 year ago

      That’s pretty badass. I remember hearing about cool use cases like that back in the day before it got solidified into what reddit is now.

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        1 year ago

        reddit - built by the users, moderated and largely developed by enthusiasts, only to have the resultant content paywalled and mined by AI for the benefit of oligarchs. Truly a sign of the times.

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          1 year ago

          Oooohh … he said the O word /s.

          Seriously though, I think the best defence againt that is decentralization. It’s not just ok for this to not be THE reddit sucessor. It’s a positive good. Even more so now that I’ve realized you can follow most activitypub based things like mastodon from most of the others. Not only are none of the successors in completion, they’re in symbiosis.

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            right, which is how things would be if the overarching objective of all software was to serve the needs of the general public - and to improve the lives of the users vs the shareholders. That is is how we end up paying a hundred or so a year to use some shitty web site to file taxes. Sorry I didn’t know the o word was a no-no, I couldn’t think of anything else more apt without swearing.

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              Sorry the o word bit was a dunp joke. I actualy prefer it over the usual coy alternatives like ceo.

        • A Cat@sh.itjust.works
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          That’s why we should work towards decentralized technologies like this and make self hosting so easy that the corporate key holders of the modern internet become pointless. Reddit killed enthusiast forums by centralizing them in one location, no reason why we can’t do the opposite to kill reddit, but this time the independent forums are federated together.