The audience trust is the single most important factor in creating a platform’s network effect which is the only currency in the basket of a large forum site like Reddit. They should never take that trust for granted otherwise a day might come when they will go down the route of their predecessors like digg, stumbleupon and newsvine. I can see that day coming very soon.
This made me think about the promise of Lemmy as an alternative. I actually don’t mind reddit going down the tubes at this point. The culture there is awful, awful, awful. The speed at which things become memefied, the speed at which it seems to accelerate people’s ability to forget things. I’ve visited that site since I want to say something absurdly early like 2006 or 07, and still do, but I’m ready to wash my hands of it.
Mastodon, for one, benefited from different communities moving over that became disenchanted with twitter. There was a long time when mastodon was active when I was hoping there would be an activitypub-centered reddit alternative, and now we’re here.
This made me think about the promise of Lemmy as an alternative. I actually don’t mind reddit going down the tubes at this point. The culture there is awful, awful, awful. The speed at which things become memefied, the speed at which it seems to accelerate people’s ability to forget things. I’ve visited that site since I want to say something absurdly early like 2006 or 07, and still do, but I’m ready to wash my hands of it.
Mastodon, for one, benefited from different communities moving over that became disenchanted with twitter. There was a long time when mastodon was active when I was hoping there would be an activitypub-centered reddit alternative, and now we’re here.