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Reddit Migration

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### About Community Tracking and helping #redditmigration to Kbin and the Fediverse. Say hello to the decentralized and open future. To see latest reeddit blackout info, see here: https://reddark.untone.uk/

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That Reddit will not shut down. It will take the hit and go on and probably make at least some money. Only, it will be a much different place, more like Facebook or Instagram, in that it will be full of ads and less specific information.
It will cease to be a different, often niche space and become just another, more generalized social for a more generalized public.

In short: we, aka the people who migrated, simply are not their intended target anymore.

On the subject, I found @gonzo0815 's post very interesting and more detailed than my summary😅 (link https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/25185/A-few-thoughts-about-the-blackout-and-the-future-development)

Let's not poison ourself, thinking on "how to make them pay". Let's move on, and enjoy the new internet spaces we are building!

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[–] inventa@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I think the fediverse has reached the critical mass needed to definitely take off, no matter what happens with Reddit. It may continue, but as communities grow over here this will be a permanent alternative, and not only 'while we are mad at reddit'.

I, personally, only browsed reddit through sync. The web and official app are unbearable and I couldn't get myself to use them even if there wasn't an alternative.