When the user revolt ends—if it ever does—Reddit’s community won’t ever be the same.

“They’re shooting themselves in the foot,” Mir says. “The content of the users is what makes the platform worth visiting. These hosts kind of run into this confusion that their hosting is the reason people are going there, but it’s really for the other users on the medium.”

  • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That’s the spirit. We don’t need to complete obliterate reddit to make it the better alternatives viable. We just need to get a minimal mass of people here to keep momentum growing.

    I keep thinking of Taleb’s essay where he talks about how effective a intolerant minority can be on affecting change in general behavior.

    • blindsight@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Brilliant. Thank you for posting that.

      I just downloaded the whole book; I’m not really interested in the markets, so I’ve been avoiding Taleb, but that essay has made me rethink that.