Until capitalism gets so large and unregulated that they can fund and control the government, which is what led to many of those "winner" picks that you describe.
It gets messed up both ways. We have many industries that are degrading because they've reached the limits of what they can innovate and instead are trying to find corners they can cut anywhere they can, while having the clout to get away with it.
Almost like glorification of any economic system is bad, rather than using them for their actual purposes.
People keep trying to use these systems forgetting human greed exists and will continue to exist
Technology is a history of users using things in ways the developer didn't consider. Honestly if it's something that isn't of value to the site, I'd imagine it should be on a report button, not a downvote button.
But you just can't convince end-users to do things the way you want. Either the system let's them do it or it doesn't. And half the time if the system lets them do it, they'll do it even if it sets fire to the system.
I don't think it's of any value to try to change user's choice of using the system, but rather embrace it and find ways to both better enable the system to use it (and perhaps curb some things you don't like about it) and then figure out what went wrong with the original intent and try to reimplement that.
Except Meta by it's nature will aim towards Centralization. They're contradictive to the concept. It doesn't even take much thought to see the issue here.
Also as app_priori pointed out, Almost every instance already has a list of defederated instances.
Isn't that just...everything?
Like is there anything they aren't requesting?
I'll probably give it at least a week, see how things are, and decide from there.
Even then if I do go back probably cut activity to the things that just aren't available elsewhere at the moment.
Mainly news. Not just world/region but hobby news.
So far just the world/region news is here, which aren't particularly great discussions if you're trying not to get hotheaded.
To be fair, if people are properly protesting, the only people who would be checking reddit to respond to that thread are
People who don't know
People who didn't agree with it
I wouldn't even know the thread exists because I haven't had reddit open on any tabs.
edit: will say there could be exceptions to that, but that's just the general idea
I only ever joined Discord for friends. Leaving would mean losing all friends, not even a select bunch. They're not moving and while some may care that it's upsetting, it's a collective bunch that needs convincing. Friends of friends of friends. People aren't jumping ship for one person to also not have their other friends not jump ship.
Reddit is a community but doesn't have the more casual chat that friends use (well they have it now, but it was never good).
Discord pretty much has to burn bridges like Reddit did before anyone moves.
If I recall, a minimum karma was used by some mod bots as a gatekeep of sorts on more official subreddits. But even then I don't think it was more than to deter very new accounts.
undefined> EDIT: based on my ratio im not sure I want to continue on this site lmao, I have a feeling its just going to turn into another Voat if this shit keeps up
...Or the people on r/antiwork are here as well and downvoted you for a very bias post to their members?
Like what did you think would happen? This would happen on Reddit as well unless you were on a subreddit that specifically supported your stance.
Not sure. I want to say Mumei at the moment, but I've found that for a lot of members I tend to have a harder time keeping up when they stream less.
I started watching Gura and while I love her music, it became just about the only content she does now, with the game streams few and far between for the past few months.
Ame similarly watched a lot of her game streams, but lately it's been a lot of Karaoke and tech streams.
Kindof like Mumei with a balance of the two, in that she has really good singing streams, and her zatsu's are creative mainly for her random RP quirks. It was entertaining seeing her take the moom and rolling with it to the point the original meme doesn't even come up anymore, and also getting everyone to go along with her "Kyu" phase.
I think the main issue is just I don't know what happens when the busy becomes busy, because then I have a lot of time that becomes difficult to fill, and for the most part it makes me fill it with vtubers I really enjoy watching, but couldn't say Oshi.
I've been watching a lot of Fauna recently, who shares time slots with Ame, but I also don't listen to ASMR at all.
So kindof all over the place at the moment. And I still love all of the people i've talked about and watch their streams all the time. Just hard to find one to call OshiI guess.