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Why do some people still have hope for Reddit?
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this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2023
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I'm guessing, at least partially, sunk cost fallacy.
And not knowing about alternative places.
Eh, I know about the alternatives and they're all clunky messes that will probably never have anywhere near the same userbase as reddit. Even if they do, they won't function the same way.
I don't mind Lemmy, and if Reddit continues to shit the bed I'll probably switch over fully, but I would much much prefer that Spez backtrack on all the recent garbage and just have stuff go back to business as usual.
I like having all my content aggregated to one space. A big selling point of lemmy and other federated systems is that they're "more free", but until a month ago everything was fine. I don't need or want to shake the foundations of how people consume media, I just need one guy to stop being a dickhead for 30 seconds.
And let's be honest, there a majority of people out there that don't want to take the time to figure out something new, and something that has some slight learning curve up front.
The fediverse as a concept is very different than the internet as it is now. The last 15 years feels like a slow slow consolidation of all the sites that rely on user generated content. Now that federated user content sites exist, people will need learn how it all works.
There's another aspect I haven't really considered until now. A lot of the sites that have user generated content spoon feed their users content they think they will be interested in. Reddit at least had a subscription model where you hand pick the communities you want, and the community curates the content you see.
There's a lot of stuff at play here, and I am very excited to see how it all unfolds for Kbin and Lemmy. Great tools will be adopted by great communities, even if they don't reach massive popularity.