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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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The harsh truth is... (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by KnittingTrekker@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
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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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[–] spark431@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Who cares? I actually think that even though this is ultimately a bad decision on Reddit's part, they are well within their right to make it.

I guess I'm not the intended audience of reddit anymore, but all I am is someone that wants to have a conversation with other people on the internet without getting interrupted by ads, while using a client that I like. I even was willing to pay money for this, and I did pay for the pro relay app, but since reddit is breaking compatibility with it, it is time to move on to the fediverse. I want to have more ownership of my content anyway, and I am an IT engineer anyway, so it is time to make that happen. Self host my own instance and participate on other instances.