More accurate than you thought you might have been when you said that. The Reddit CEO was quoted in recent days praising Twitter’s approach to “cost-cutting” and said he had had a couple of convos with Musk about running a digital platform.
Forums do not scale well. A sense of community and good moderation (related, as we have seen here) are needed. Anything private that gets popular is subject to the inevitable degradations of capitalism; anything public or quasi-public tends to get swamped. The only reason niche subreddits could sometimes maintain quality for a while was obscurity.
Reddit to me was always a tire fire, much as USENET became. It’s annoying that so many search results now deadend there, but search is broken anyway. Mastodon is quieter than Twitter, which suits me right now. If you want the feeling of being plugged in, be prepared to have your other orifices invaded as well. I don’t expect Lemmy to replace Reddit. Something else will snatch the crown for a while, before the investors take their pound of flesh.
While I am somewhat happy that reddit seems to be withering on the vine and it indulges in a bit of schadenfreude I do worry that the few of the forums I frequent might have a culture shift due to a reddit exodus. Sort of like going to a punk show in high school only to see a lot of the people I was avoiding who happened to heard RHCP on the radio and want to try their head at stage diving but do it feet first. But, I’m a mercurial over-sharer so who am I to talk…
Well, you should check their site and enter your zip-code it will tell you which stores have that only to discover that the sales associates didn’t even know they carry bags of rocks because I guess they weren’t the ones carrying them off the pallets.
Couldn’t see if this had been posted above, but someone on r/synthesizers started a Lemmy instance, which seems to have a spread of topics, that people in this community could be interested in.
I’ve been on Reddit a long long time, and have recently deleted the apps and won’t go back. The attitude displayed during the stouch with Apollo/Christian basically made their position on to not just developers but the user base too perfectly clear.
There were definitely some fun and interesting communities, but few things can replace the quality of a dedicated forum like Elektronauts.
For the rest, Lemmy is the place now. Feels pretty rough and ready like the nearly internet, but that’s a good thing. There’s a heap of the most active posters from Reddit there now too, so it will build critical mass pretty quickly.
Reddit died for me when they killed 3rd party apps, baconreader was the best. Nowadays I use it less anyway. Worst I hang on elektronauts, and get GAS instead.
They must be very confident about the number of people who are so addicted to reddit that they can’t function without it to even consider implementing this “move the entire culture behind a paywall” tactic.
