What are the chances Reddit doesn’t give a shit and just waits it out. Only gonna last till the 14th anyways.

Some subs are going “indefinite” but Admins will just replace the mods.

WhitePeopleTwitter is doing a half-assed thing that doesn’t actually do anything.

And the big “news” ones that are 100% controlled by feds (news, worldnews, politics etc) are ignoring the blackout too. No polls, no discussions, nothing. Makes sense, too. Those the ones used to push Western propaganda. Can’t let some unpaid shmucks shut it down in “protest”.

  • cosecantphi [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I'd like reddit to die so it can be replaced by something better and decentralized. Right now it's monopolizing both big communities and small niche communities, and that's real bad because one company can control what gets discussed in all of them. Many of these communities don't even exist outside of reddit, so there's really no choice but to use it and also hope it dies. Also it's currently just about the only way to get search results out of google written by a human being. Years ago you could find all kinds of welcoming forums via google full of people who could answer niche questions. Now it's either reddit or seo spam crap articles.

    • Retrosound [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      The small niche ones only exist because they're on reddit. They used to be on web forums, and pretty much everyone agreed they suck and abandoned them. On reddit they're easy to participate in and not full of spam.

        • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          Sure, but now we have to read through 71 iterations of exactly the same joke as the top voted comments on almost every post.

        • Retrosound [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          It's because they had admins with skin in the game, instead of being the property of faceless censoring corporations.

        • cosecantphi [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Yeah, I'm not saying I miss the old style of internet forums, I definitely prefer what Hexbear has been doing. I'm saying I miss there being many, many independent forums not under the control of a single media company.

    • fawx [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I mean I only use Bacon Reader, and will probably mostly quit once that's gone. And it'd be cool to have a better, decentralized site sure. But I've also been on reddit for like 14 years now. It's about the only website (or thing) I still use that I used when I was 13. It's what got me into leftist politics. Honestly it kinda sucks seeing it go down the toilet, feels like the death of a community.