I didn’t delete my account but did delete RIF once it stopped working. I was mostly a lurker on reddit and the few comments and posts i did make are of little to no value to the platform.

I figured wasting a few MB of space on a harddrive would be a more effective protest than doing them a favor and deleting my admittedly worthless content.

Honestly? Zuckerberg has always had an obsession with the next step as it relates to how people use the internet. He has a track record of trying to catch lightning in a bottle again and getting struck by lightning instead, to the detriment of his own company.

Just look at the Metaverse, he got obsessed with a relatively new technologies (vr and blockchain) and wasted billions of dollars chasing the same high he once got when Facebook took over.

Maybe he sees money in the fediverse, but i think Zuckerberg is just getting excited about a new technology like the rest of us. Unlike the rest of us however, he will likely end up spending billions of dollars continuing to chase that high that he got from Facebook.

My thinking is that because it is decentralized, even if sections of the fediverse decide to sell out to our corporate overlords, it wouldnt compromise the entire platform.

I wouldnt go so far as to say that the fediverse is completely immune to manipulation, but i do think the nature of it makes mass tampering\control more difficult.

I’ve already felt the sting of the protests when googling solutions to various issues. I used to be able to include “reddit” in the search and would almost always find relevant information quickly, but now as OP mentioned many posts and whole communities have gone dark.

It’s all been really eye opening about the potential negative consequences of having so many communities and information in the control of so few.

Just uninstalled RIF about an hour ago. I’m looking forward to this next chapter. It’s still very early days for the fediverse but it seems very promising.

This was the last push i needed to actually move on from reddit. Now i’ll finally be able to retrain my muscle memory to open kbin instead of RIF when i sit on the toilet.

I think its more likely that the posts on reddit are the same, and we are simply starting to become accustomed to the posts\quality of comments on the fediverse.

Our eyes are finally starting to open.

I can’t imagine how it feels to put so many hours into building a thriving community just to have it thanklessly ripped from your hands.

As an 12 year reddit user who almost never posted or commented, thank you for all of the hard work you and others like you put in to make reddit as great as it was.

Hopefully fediverse will prove more resistant to greedy corporate interests in the years to come. I’m looking forward to building this new community with all of you!

It’s been a real struggle breaking the decade long habit of just opening reddit every time im bored, but I’m trying to ween myself off in preparation for when they kill 3rd party apps at the end of the month since i won’t be able to use RIF any longer.

I would say im spending about 80% of my time on kbin now. After the 3rd party app shutdown i’ll probably only use reddit when it comes up in top google search results.

Top righter reporting in. I won’t change and I’m not sorry.

I was thinking earlier that it would be nice if magazines that cover the same or similar topics could choose to federate to centralize related discussions. The communities would also have the freedom to defederate from other magazines of their respective communities that get too toxic or lack moderation.