When the user revolt ends—if it ever does—Reddit’s community won’t ever be the same.

“They’re shooting themselves in the foot,” Mir says. “The content of the users is what makes the platform worth visiting. These hosts kind of run into this confusion that their hosting is the reason people are going there, but it’s really for the other users on the medium.”

  • PenguinTD@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 years ago

    funny how the article does not mention lemmy or kbin, but put in disclosure that their parent company have stakes in reddit. And the best the author can do is

    If users have invested significant time in a community, it’s going to be a pain to find something amid the sea of federated upstarts that all claim to be the next best thing.

    The mentioned article by Rory Mir actually mentioned lemmy and kbin, cause it’s EFF. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/what-reddit-got-wrong