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Reddit is dead. Long live the Fediverse. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I think fediverse people are wildly overestimating how much 99% of Reddit users care about this. The mod team on r/futurology (I'm one of them) set up a fediverse site just over a month ago (here you go - https://futurology.today/ ) It's been modestly successful so far, but the vast majority of subscribers seem to be coming from elsewhere in the fediverse, not migrants from Reddit.

This is despite the fact we've permanently stickied a post to the top of the sub. r/futurology has over 19 million subscribers, and yet the fediverse is only attracting a tiny trickle of them. I doubt most people on Reddit even know what the word fediverse means.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People who would leave a site like Reddit because of a principled stance often mistakenly believe that the rest of society cares as deeply as they. Spoiler: society mostly doesn't care; at least, not enough to go out of their way to change anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There are a lot of people that are actually too dumb to change platforms and assume apps like Reddit are the actual internet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

My father had a doctorate of engineering. He was a brilliant man. When I saw him search for Google and then follow the search link to google.com, to then search on their home page, I started to tell him he should search from the address / search field in his browser. He was instantly becoming confused and so I said, "nevermind," because his way got him satisfactory results so why bother. Some people aren't dumb at all. They just don't care about the same things you or I mighty enough to learn them (beyond basics).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Even the head mod of piracy subreddit was ousted from the subreddit for attempting to migrate the sub to a lemmy instance, and the redditors that remain there actually cheered! It's wild, you would expect pirates, who always at risk of having their subreddit shut down, would understand the need to migrate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The quality of content in /r/piracy is shit nowadays when compared to [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I'm technically from elsewhere in the fediverse, but I'm also a Reddit migrant (back in June). Thank you for setting the community up, I've missed it from Reddit days

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/16tqihd/settings_updateschanges_to_ad_personalization/

Reddit just decided it was a good idea to REMOVE the option to disable ad personalisation. Good job u/spez. We know what you're doing.