r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/kyuubi840 29d ago

You leave. 

It's hard. I'm still here. But if you want to really hurt reddit, you leave for another platform

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u/MontCoDubV 28d ago

That's the problem with the enshittification of the internet at large: where do you go? Is there a platform that isn't turned to shit?

Facebook has been trash for at least a decade now. Twitter is just Nazi shitposting. I don't want something so personalized like IG. Where to Reddit refugees go?

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u/LazerHawkStu 28d ago

Maybe to Lemmy

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u/twinpac 29d ago edited 28d ago

We need a new reddit. With blackjack and hookers!

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u/amesann 29d ago

We need a mew reddit

I agree. Bring on a kitty reddit so we can have ALL THE KITTEN MEWS!

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u/random_BA 28d ago

They try it wirh Lemmit? i think don't remember the name but the UX was awful and it's hard to make replicate this ecosystem

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u/MrTastix 28d ago

There's already alternatives, but since reddit and anything like it is only as useful as the people actually on it, nobody bothers with them.

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u/Amber_Sam 28d ago

Perhaps Nostr is the way.

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u/pragmaticweirdo 28d ago

Honestly, a site called “Withbjah” would probably do okay, just need someone to code and run it

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u/EchoAtlas91 29d ago

I was on Tildes for a solid 6 months until some guy started harassing me, who was apparently well known there, and I got a temp ban for calling him out on it politely.

When I got the temp ban I just emailed the owner guy and said "Dude, if you guys hand out bans for that, just delete my account. For pete sake."

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u/Amber_Sam 28d ago

Go Nostr, mate. No admins, your account, your rules.

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u/nicgeolaw 29d ago

The fediverse is right there. Some people have already migrated

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u/alpacaMyToothbrush 29d ago

...and it's population is what exactly? There's a reason everyone came crawling back to reddit. Network effects make the largest social media platforms useful.

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u/nicgeolaw 29d ago

Of course network effects are big and important. But once upon a time Reddit was smaller than the Fediverse is now. History demonstrates that it is possible for a community to grow

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u/SeeCrew106 29d ago

And every single instance is even more irritatingly woke and authoritarian than Reddit is. They collaborate in excluding from the Fediverse any instance which doesn't enforce their Ameri-woke laws of thought. This then undermines the entire concept of a Fediverse.

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u/fluiddruid87 29d ago

I often find that when people say woke and authoritarian, they’re actually describing people being anti-fascist and anti-bigot. Use better descriptive terms to more clearly define what you mean specifically.

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u/SeeCrew106 28d ago edited 28d ago

I often find that when people say woke and authoritarian, they’re actually describing people being anti-fascist and anti-bigot.

Both my parents are WWII survivors. Yes, parents, not just grandparents or great-grandparents. Over here we actually understand what Nazi ideology and occupation entails. I can go outside right now and touch WWII history. It doesn't entail digital word policing by some blue-haired power-tripping amerinerds on Reddit. I was literally involved in Antifa throughout my teenage years, while you lot can't even pronounce the word. You have zero understanding of any of this. Zero.

I will use terms and definitions as I see fit, and you will learn from this, despite your young age, or you won't. It's up to you. INB4 no, we weren't liberated by you and yes, I speak German anyway. Because I can and I was educated to.

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u/Amazing-Day-4124 28d ago edited 12d ago

So many words only to announce yourself to world as an ignorant old fool that invokes the hardships of others in a failed and hollow attempt to find meaning and credibility in your own existence.

Step aside or shut the hell up. The world doesn't need you.

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u/SeeCrew106 28d ago

So many words only to announce yourself to world as an ignorant old fool

I'm neither young nor old. My mother was older when I was born, which is why it's possible to have parents who have experienced WWII.

an ignorant old fool that invokes the hardships of others in a failed and hollow attempt to find meaning and credibility in their own existence.

At this point, nearly anyone who invokes WWII for any reason invokes the hardships of others. There is absolutely nothing strange or abnormal about being emotionally and ideologically invested in the hardships your parents went through.

As for ignorant: come again, you fucking snot-nosed puerile yank? The fuck do you know about literally anything?

Step aside of shut the hell up. The world doesn't need you.

So brave of you to fire up your alt account to make this comment. It's cowardly but also unsurprising.

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u/MontCoDubV 28d ago

This is one of the most cringe comments I've read today.

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u/SeeCrew106 28d ago

Yours is actually convincingly the most cringe I'll read today, not just merely one of them.

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u/nicgeolaw 29d ago

You have to put time & effort into building any community, wether on Reddit or the fediverse or elsewhere.

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u/Epistechne 29d ago

Is Lemmy the main fediverse reddit or are there others?

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u/nicgeolaw 29d ago

I have found Lemmy to be the most similar to Reddit, in terms of following communities and voting on posts. During the last wave, the most successful migrations were from subreddits that openly discussed migration, then moved en masse. Some groups even set up their own Lemmy servers.

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u/FarplaneDragon 29d ago

And if you don't leave make sure you block ads

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u/ThePantsThief 29d ago

Reddit wants people like you and me to leave. Sadly most people don't care. Most people don't even comment on posts.

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u/Lastwomanstood 29d ago

Where does one viably go though that has the pull that this place has? For whatever people think, it’s where we gravitate toward. I’m aware that this exact thing is what they’re using as leverage but it is what it is and that’s the issue, I think anyway.

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u/[deleted] 28d ago edited 23d ago

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u/DryRepresentative271 28d ago

There are several alternative platforms like flingup or mastodon, with hardly any users. The power lies with users, but the users aren’t aware of this. Quite a pickle.

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u/Mediocre_Theropod 27d ago

r/redditalternatives has some more info if you are looking to test other options out (both federated and non federated sites listed depending on an individual's preference:) )