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First subreddit over 10M to go private. The message shown when trying to enter the sub is a quote from spez:

I think the problem Digg had is that it was a company that was built to be a company, and you could feel it in the product. The way you could criticize Reddit is that we weren't a company – we were all heart and no head for a long time. So I think it'd be really hard for me and for the team to kill Reddit in that way. Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit, April 2023

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Over the years I’ve become a glass half full kind of a person when small people fight against big corporations. Eventually the dust settles, and the people give up, but the company goes on. There are exceptions, but this has been the norm. I would be pleasantly surprised if all this actually brings Reddit’s downfall.

I think there are two reasons. I think Reddit has way more ‘normal’ users than Digg who feel strongly about this, and there is no one single Reddit to replace Digg this time around. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is not a single Reddit, but there's a single Fediverse, offering a single alternative to every social media. And it's growing faster than ever. We shall win!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does this compare to the twitter exodus

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Well, Twitter is a lot larger than Reddit, so more people were involved, but Mastodon was actually a lot (250x) larger than Lemmy before the exodus, so while Mastodon only increased its user count 4-5x, Lemmy is already past the 10x mark and the exodus has barely begun!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the number one source of reassurance I give people who object that Lemmy is "overrun by tankies." That was just the earliest niche community that happened to jump ship in this particular direction. Now, even at this early stage, Lemmy is being overrun by everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

People will start contributing to Lemmy software. Anarchists and democratic socialists will also improve it, not just Marxists.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I tried to get on board mastodon a few times over the years and it's... Never 'taken'. I did leave Twitter tho. Not that I was ever a major user, tbh. But still. I am still on Facebook tho, I admit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just a nit: Given the context of the rest of your post, I think you mean "glass half empty".

"I see the glass half full" means optimistic, while "I see the glass glad empty" means pessimistic. The idiom is about what a person chooses to focus on in a less-than-ideal situation: what's missing, or what's still there?

(Not saying you don't know that, just explaining for anyone who isn't familiar with the idiom)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

If people use Facebook after the genocide in Myanmar and Cambridge Analytica then reddit will be fine?