will reddit care that much? posting pictures of steam is still pageviews and engagement, which is really all they care about
IncidentalIncidence
joined 1 year ago
This is very cool.
the thing is, this is an awful strategy for getting people onto a platform. The reason for reddit's success was that there were forums for pretty much anything you could think of centralized in one place.
99.9% of people don't care that much about which app, which instance, which server, whatever, they're just there for the content. The fact that so many reddit users are up in arms about it is a legacy from when it was a much more niche platform than it is today. But in general, this confusing mess of federation, moderation philosophies, defederation, it doesn't matter which instance you choose because they federate, but actually it does matter because some of them don't, a wall of text needed to explain what happens when the mods of two different servers have a disagreement and how the federation protocol works, it's just not a good strategy for getting people onto the platform.
Naja, genau das war eine die Gründe für der Erfolg von Reddit -- aus gab auf einer Plattform Foren für so ziemlich alles.
Es stimmt schon dass das mit dem Federation die alte Forenkultur ähnelt; das war allerdings eher eine Schwäche von den alten Forenkultur als eine Stärke.
it is really annoying to subscribe to communities on federated servers -- there should be a link that will redirect you to your home server. As of now I seem to have to copy and paste the community address into the URL because the feddit.de community search doesn't seem to be working for me
agreed. I'm still on reddit mostly for sports communities that I can't replace here.
When boost stops working, I'm not going to download the Reddit app. I'll keep using it on desktop, but it'll obviously be less, but if they kill old.reddit that'll be it for me.
I'm sure some people will just download the official app, but if there's going to be a large drop in pageviews I would expect it to happen when the apps stop working.