Obsydian_Falcon

You’re acting like any government, American or no, can handle the security aspects of a national database. Also, what’s the point? Using an ID to play games, to watch porn? That shit is dumb, you can’t nationalize or control the internet in any form, even with ID specifications. It’s just not a realistic goal

Amen dude, over $500 billion after inflation paid for nationwide fiber, and telecom companies just pocketed that shit. We should’ve been at 500mb down, 250 up since 2015.

Spez isn’t tanking Reddit for leftist speech alone. That’s not the whole picture.

Reddit is A) Trying to go IPO and B) Investment chickens are coming home to roost. The main reason Spez is tanking is for monetary gain and a better-looking public offering. Yeah, discourse is there but also not stifled like on Twitter, I think it’s EXTREMELY reductionist to paint all of Spez’s actions as being against leftist speech when there’s a dozen other factors that have been documented

It’s not really a power trip for some mods. Community and support are things some people REALLY need, especially veterans and disabled people. Would you say the same if the Mods of r/blind capitulated as well? They are blind people modding for other blind people, having random Reddit mods step into their job doesn’t make sense and will hurt the community.

Ik a lot of mods do power trip, but you’re just being a cynical ass because you want to feel superior for having left the website when I reality you’re just another person with another opinion. Nothing special

Ahh yes, all us silly kids getting degress and running the logistics that allow you to sell your salmon in the first place. Y’all conservatives just love being divorced from the real world don’t you? I’m all for good fait conversation, but your opinion stated loudly doesn’t make it fact. It just makes you another blustering 'hard worker" who has no idea how the modern world works since your ignorance is so blissful

The tech bubble is starting to show signs of bursting. SVB alongside other large investent firms going down has shown companies that just being on the internet is not a sign of making money. Essentially the internet bubble is popping…again, as interest rates skyrocket and realized gains become smaller, internet-based companies seem to be scrambling to outpace the likes of Machine Learning and the new technological curve coming. Reddit going IPO, the Twitter shenanigans, etc… Essentially they’ve all realized that their sites and business models are being made obsolete by the “new wave” of businesses/startups relying on newer technologies and novel revenue models.

Tldr; this is the cycle, new tech comes out, old tech dies. It happens all the time, just that this time it’s not happening in our physical world but rather the virtual.

It’s not only the break in routine but also the direction of the site. All your examples are productivity products while the fediverse is, in essence, social media. The thing with social media is that branding REALLY matters. There have been attempts to copy Instagram or Snapchat or Reddit but they have all failed to gain massive communities due to not being part of a known brand.

“I posted my pics on the gram”

“What’s your snap?” etc…

Kbin, Lemmy, these are just instances of something called the Fediverse, try getting a layperson to understand that.

Social media generally has a rule known as the 90:9:1 rule. 90% of people are lurkers just doomscrolling or passing time, 9% are interacting with content and leaving comments and/or posting, and the final 1% is making the engaging content that sites like Reddit and YouTube are known for.

Right now, FOSS software is often populated by only 10% of that ratio, the power-users and people that interact every so often. Those lurkers, the 90%, migrating them will be hard if not impossible. Remember, they lurk, they will stay where the most engaging content is, and that is still currently Reddit.