This is a rant post and I apologize but I had to talk about this. Most subs are coming back online and not saying ANYTHING about the next steps. Only a handful of subs are going indefinite. I checked the front page for the first time today after leaving the a couple hours before the day of the blackout and what do I see? Subs are up, and comments and upvotes are up to the general average before the blackout.

I checked r/gaming to see their recent post (WHICH HAS OVER 68k UPVOTES), and I see a comment with over 500 upvotes saying in a nutshell, “You guys need to calm down, they’re a company and need to make money”.

Along with a couple other comments saying similar things. Are you fucking serious? You can’t even have the fucking balls to say, “This is a company that has consistently screwed over its users and I need to take a stand and quit my addiction”? You’re just gonna sit and do nothing? Fuck you. You’re no fucking better than u/spez. You’re all a bunch of fucking hypocritical liars for shitting on spez and the admins while talking about how you’re “done” with Reddit and you won’t support this.

Go touch grass you fucking addicted cowards. I’m glad I made the switch to Lemmy if it means I don’t have to interact with dumbfucks like you.

  • Elle@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    Perhaps one reason we got to this point is that reddit has control over the market on this format, or at least has the dominant network effect. Many seem view this as a zero-sum game, where for one player to advance another must fall away, but I find that perspective short-sighted.

    I understand where you’re coming from here. I think the reason some hold the view you mention is because at least in the years leading up to online spaces becoming consolidated, that is sort of how it went. You’d have one major site get overcome by another and another until we got to this recent weird period of stabilized stagnation, as communities and people converged on the same few spaces & apps.

    Now very gradually we’re seeing some small but growing efforts to break out of this stagnation. Some are going back to smaller, more carefully curated, moderated, and isolated communities apart from the masses (e.g. tildes, cohost, pillowfort, etc.), and others trying something a little different, similar to those smaller communities yet connected to each other (where we’re discussing this).

    • sirdavidxvi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      You’re right that historically there has been one dominant player at a time, and that it is typically in a period of stagnation or complacency when something new comes along to initiate the shift to the next player.

      Social networks are great examples of natural monopolies, largely due to the aforementioned network effect. Without a large, diverse user base they tend to become echo chambers.

      But you helpfully point out that there are other new players in the market, to the point that a successful reddit may not be necessary to spur competition for the next great thing.