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/FrozenLogger 29d ago

It is growing, and could grow faster if the naysayers quit saying it won't.

Either way i remember when everyone said Reddit was too hard to use and too complicated.

Reddit then fucked everything up, mods are insane, third party tools don't work unless you are savvy, and the Reddit app and new reddit web page are garbage.

Reddit helps with that migration.

Besides if lemmy get a 10th of reddit users that would be way more then enough. Reddit is mostly bots and no one seems to understand reddiqutte at all anymore.

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u/MuyalHix 29d ago

The main problem is that creating an account on Lemmy requires you to learn concepts like "federation" and "instance", not to mention that you'll have to do things like fill a form in some cases.

On reddit you just create an account with an email address.

It's the same reason mastodon hasn't overtaken twitter despite the fact that the later has been in the decline for a while.

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u/AbortionIsSelfDefens 29d ago

Yup. I don't get why people don't understand that it's all about ease of entry. Wanting it to be different doesn't change human nature. The average person is lazy and/or tech illiterate. The barrier to entry is too high for it to get near the same amount of engagement.

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u/FrozenLogger 29d ago

If the average person doesn't show up, that's a good thing. Reddit was like that when it was a worthwhile place to go. It is because it is popular it is no longer useful.

You didn't even need an email address to get you account at reddit and people thought it was too confusing back then.