Convenient how Wired (who is owned by Conde Nast who is owned by Advance Publications who has a stake of ownership in Reddit) mentions that "Like with Twitter, no clear alternative has emerged as a replacement." and fails to mentioned the fediverse or forums.
Are you surprised? The status quo does not want a new competitor. Unfortunately for us, the easiest way to keep the fediverse down is to not even acknowledge it as an option.
it’s going to be a pain to find something amid the sea of federated upstarts that all claim to be the next best thing
They kinda bring it up but nothing is named directly.
That's also pretty dismissive. Who's claiming to be the "next big thing"? And also, if they're federating with each other, does it actually matter?
Like I know BlueSky isn't federating with ActivityPub sites, but once their protocol is released, there's a very good chance that it gets integrated into at least some Fediverse projects.
I love how WIRED, being part of the commercialized, centralized internet itself, cannot bring themselves to mention actual Reddit alternatives like Lemmy or kbin, and end this write-up of Reddit’s folly with basically “uh so people might go back to tumblr, I dunno, maybe someone should like, give someone startup money for a like new Reddit and we can live the cycle of the good ol days again”. Yeah don’t worry guys, you’ll get us next time.
What a wet fart.
Reddit won't really die. It will filter out users that (I believe) are providing value to community. Reddit will keep corporate marketers, bots and fake discussion.
Reddit is downplaying the effect, but don't believe it. The quality of posts and comments there has dropped by like 90%.
With how shitty they have been lately will that overflow and flip back to having goof content?
Good, let it burn.
Reddit has been a terrible site since I joined it. They’re insane outages and comments just failing. Lemmy even with its bugs it much better. The future is bright.
Why did everyone migrate here if we’re just going to talk about reddit all day? Getting sick of every other post being about the other website.
Well, spez and the company's policy changes over time and particularly now have been destroying Reddit. These are just the latest results. Exodus will continue.
afaic, anyone still with Reddit after all this should stay there. I'd love to have the Fediverse as a tinier space for tech minded, power users.
Oh, no! Anyway...
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