Can Reddit survive as its volunteer workforce close down subreddits and walk away from the site in protest at the management's new policies?

Huffman has said, “We are not in the business of giving that [Reddit’s content] away for free.” That stance makes sense. But it also ignores the reality that all of Reddit’s content has been given to it for free by its millions of users. Further, it leaves aside the fact that the content has been orchestrated by its thousands of volunteer moderators.

touché

  • klieg2323@lemmy.piperservers.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Great article, except super cringe at the end suggesting Beehaw specifically and not saying “Lemmy” or something to indicate it is part of a wider service.

    Unless Reddit reverses course … a new site, such as the user-funded Beehaw … will take its place.

    • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Because people keep unintentionally hyping up Beehaw, they do not understand that Beehaw is nothing special and that everyone would be better off unsubscribing from its communities to let it be its own island since it doesn’t like the whole federation concept anyway (at least not since it finished exploiting it to grow to its current user count). I already unsubscribed from all their communities after their dick move.

      • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I was reading these comments on beehaw yesterday defending the defederation from shitjustworks because of T_D sub with like 10 subscribers and I was already getting a little worried thinking what I’ve gotten myself into. Glad to see the view on this on other instances seems a bit more balanced and reasonable. Beehaw seems toxic as hell.

        • Iapar@feddit.deEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Toxic? Do you know what this word means?

          They made it their stated goal to create a safespace for people who are, for example, in a vulnerable state.

          • eleitl@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            1 year ago

            They should defederate entirely and become an island. The world is not a safe place.

              • eleitl@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                1 year ago

                I see that their mass defederation is potentially temporary.

                But the point that hairtrigger defederation results in fragmentation, up to the point of insularisation remains valid. Islands naturally tend to become obscure.

      • Serinus@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 year ago

        The biggest mistake* Mastodon made was that they promoted “Mastodon” instead of a specific instance.

        I think they’re absolutely right to just pick an instance and recommend that, or if that instance doesn’t work, try this other one. Which instance they pick is not what I care about more than just picking some specific instance. Beehaw may or may not have been the best choice, but I’m glad they picked one.

        *I understand why Mastodon wanted to be neutral, but it was horrible for onboarding people.