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Don't be discouraged by people saying these protests don't work, or by subreddits going public (kbin.social)
submitted 2 years ago by anthoniix@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
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People discredit every type of protest, IRL or not. I think back to every major protest that's happened in response to some major event, and the response every time is "That won't ever work", "You're wasting your time", "Imagine caring about that".

This isn't the death of Reddit, not even close to it. Reddit may even get more popular after this. However, that doesn't mean all of this was pointless.

The Fediverse continues to grow, and that's genuinely a good thing. Every time a platform fucks up, people give X ActivityPub app a new set of eyes and continue to help developers strengthen these platforms and build up the community.

A lot of times the things we want don't happen in 1 big moment, it's a lot of continuous smaller moments that eventually form into something greater.

It's going to take a lot of effort to build out a new platform, especially one built off the concept of decentralization. I think we should continue to build our communities here, and do our best to help this platform thrive.

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[-] rammer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

The other side of that coin is the lack of content. If it's small it doesn't have as much content.

[-] Zelsabriel@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

There may be a lack of content, but at the same time more users don't always mean quality content.

I was on reddit for over a decade and as time went on more and more bots showed up, more content was reposted over and over, and more communities were swallowed up until only the same types of posts were ever pushed through to the top every day. I think it's refreshing to go somewhere where that isn't an issue yet.

[-] Sabata11792@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I've not really been bored since new content flows from other groups. With federation, if you're somewhere slow, you can just pop in somewhere else for a bit without dedicating time to set up.

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