What Reddit Got Wrong
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After weeks of burning through users’ goodwill, Reddit is facing a moderator strike and an exodus of its most important users. It’s the latest example of a social media site making a critical mistake: users aren’t there for the services, they’re there for the community. Building barriers to access...

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/539688

From the article: Moving to the Fediverse This tension between these communities and their host have, again, fueled more interest in the Fediverse as a decentralized refuge. A social network built on an open protocol can afford some host-agnosticism, and allow communities to persist even if individual hosts fail or start to abuse their power. Unfortunately, discussions of Reddit-like fediverse services Lemmy and Kbin on Reddit were colored by paranoia after the company banned users and subreddits related to these projects (reportedly due to “spam”). While these accounts and subreddits have been reinstated, the potential for censorship around such projects has made a Reddit exodus feel more urgently necessary, as we saw last fall when Twitter cracked down on discussions of its Fediverse-alternative, Mastodon.

    • Kaizen@lemmy.fmhy.mlOPMEnglish
      102·
      2 years ago

      I don’t think they were “suppressing” lemmy purposely, it’s just that the whole fediverse mainly consists of “tech savvy” or geeky people and can be a bit much to wrap ones mind around at first as a non-tech person.

      • nullishcat@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        8·
        2 years ago

        Yeah we should make an infographic and lobby congress to include fediverse knowledge in computer classes

        • Kaizen@lemmy.fmhy.mlOPMEnglish
          41·
          2 years ago

          An infographic would actually be nice, getting younger people on it is especially a way to make something more popular, all the fediverse is missing is a stupid decentralized tiktok (i hope it never happens) and for tiktok to make stupid changes like twitter & reddit.

        • coderade@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I think we should be advocating for schools to be encouraged to use open source software through their entire curriculum. People could learn that from the start and have a better appreciation, especially as FOSS software has gotten more stable

            • coderade@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

              I’ve seen GitHub used for class turning in and stuff, but not a program on there. is that like a learning course for FOSS stuff? Would be very influential as people would grow up caring about FOSS

              • nullishcat@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
                1·
                2 years ago

                It’s a program called GH Campus Experts. It used to be on the GH education page, but now it seems like it’s been hidden behind a few pages and a new domain. From what I can tell, it’s basically just events, hackathons, workshops, etc. that are run by GitHub. I swear I remember it being more than that, but maybe I’m just misremembering stuff.

      • Daftling@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        It can be really hard to push past this as well. i2p has been trying for a long time with very little success.

  • Deadpixel@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    They have been deleting a ton of my comments with hundreds of upvotes warning people to verify that their votes on the AMA were not reversed like mine and many others. I only just realized now that have deleted about 75% of my posts mentioning Lemmy even in passing. I haven’t received a single message stating that any of my content was removed for spam or any other reason.

    At this point I am planning to edit & delete my comments for 3 decades old accounts. I will probably end up making a new account, and patching Sync for Android to keep accessing the Reddit API for free.