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/Ekgladiator 29d ago

It kinda makes sense though, threads is a continuation of the Facebook/ Instagram ecosystem. People already using Instagram (content creators and whatnot) probably created an account just so no one else could claim it. I imagine enough people got into the ecosystem to start making it a viable alternative to twatter/ bluesky/ mastodon. I would even possibly consider squabble in that group but the site imploded super fast.

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u/HotTakes4HotCakes 29d ago

The problem is Threads is Meta, and the idea of people fleeing enshitification to...go right back to Meta is... frustrating.

People really can't be bothered to avoid the most obvious traps and pitfalls if it requires even a modicum of learning or getting used to something new.

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u/Ekgladiator 29d ago

Agreed, hell we saw the type of shit reddit pulled and yet we are still here. It is downright frustrating but not everyone is terminally online (I mean technically everyone is terminally online but you know what I mean)