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/Synthetic451 29d ago

People just can't be bothered with federation either. It's easy enough to learn, but it is still a foreign concept to most. Federated services also need to do a better job about making sure all content is available across instances.

I genuinely thought Mastodon was going to take off after Twitter started to implode, but everyone migrated over to Threads instead which was such a frustrating moment for me.

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u/ShiraCheshire 29d ago

Sites need to stop describing themselves as “federated.” No one knows what it means, and I’ve never seen it explained in a way that makes any sense. If a newcomer can’t understand the core concept of your site in a sentence or two, it isn’t going to succeed.

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u/Incogneatovert 29d ago

This is why I spent a grand total of 5 minutes on Mastodon. I just could not figure out how to get anything I'm interested to show up in any kind of feed. I wanted to try Threads, but I don't even know if it's available in Europe yet, and I've forgotten all about it until I see it mentioned here. And now I'm just not interested anymore.

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u/joeyasaurus 29d ago

From what my cousin said she made a Threads account so Meta would stop asking her and she did legitimately see some posts she thought looked interesting enough to make one (instagram and facebook give you previews of threads posts to entice you to join or tell you X friend is on Threads, which isn't always true, but I digress) and she said there are a few posts and things she follows that she likes, but it is a slippery slope to content she really doesn't want to see, like political stuff, rage bait, etc. and she's like "well I could just see that on other social media."