A video about the effectiveness of the Reddit protest

  • norbert@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I haven’t gone back since the blackout, I get my content here and some other bookmarks I’d forgotten about.

    Turns out a whole bunch of us were sick of reddit anyway and were eagerly awaiting a new place to go. I’d have never heard of the Fediverse if reddit hadn’t been dicks about API pricing. I knew as soon as I came here and started exploring that this was the way to go; reddit is old news, it’s been around for 18 years, that’s forever in internet time. It’s time to move onto the next thing and the idea of hundreds (thousands!) of federated servers talking and sharing content across platforms is very exciting to me.

    • lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      this is my experience as well

      I’ve been unhappy with the quality at reddit for years but there was no reasonable alternative that I knew about

      I had heard about Mastodon but never really researched the wider fediverse until recently

      now I will pretty much never use any corporate owned website again and will exclusively use federated software