kbin.social was the first thing on the recommended list.
Woah. Get those lifeboats filled.
First on the list. Sweet.
What’s the best/least obnoxious way to suggest to communities who haven’t brought up migrating yet that they should consider it?
There’s like 3 subs that if they migrated over, I’d happily just stay here forever and never go back.
I spent some time going through any subreddit I liked and joining their Discord or Lemmy.
I found quite a few that didn’t mention the blackouts or API changes and I didn’t want to cause a ruckus by posting…so I’d like to know too.
Posting this from my Lemmy acct but tbh kbin looks nicer. I have a feeling everyone’s waiting till the end of the month to really see what happens with the 3rd party apps and then they’ll lock themselves in to either: Discord, Lemmy, Kbin, or stay on Reddit.
The more tech savvy and/or privacy minded subreddits moved to Lemmy communities, at least for the stuff I look at.
I feel like federation let’s this basically be what many want reddit to be, a platform by the userbase, for the userbase.
Exactly. Capitalist platforms will all suffer from enshitification. They will eventually have to make money, and users are products. Their shareholders will eventually force the platforms to extract money from their users.
When we are talking about enshittification, we’re talking about these stages:
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Initial Stage: When a platform starts, it needs users, so it makes itself valuable to users. It provides services that are beneficial to the users, attracting them to the platform.
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Second Stage: Once the platform has a substantial user base, it starts to abuse its users to make things better for its business customers. It starts prioritizing its business needs over the needs of the users.
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Final Stage: Finally, the platform starts to abuse its business customers to claw back all the value for itself. It starts taking a larger share of the value that passes between the users and the business customers.
That is, Reddit made it attractive for users to come and write content, and moderators worked for free, and Reddit loved that because they didn’t have to pay them. But lo and behold, they have to answer to their shareholders, so they came up with these restrictions to squeeze more money out of users and moderators.
Favorite thing I’ve read all day aside from Father’s Day cards from my daughters.