Lemmy and Kbin shoutout from Techdirt: Reddit Blackout Crashes The Site As Reddit Users Realize They’re In The Power Position
Lemmy and Kbin shoutout from Techdirt: Reddit Blackout Crashes The Site As Reddit Users Realize They’re In The Power Position
On Monday we wrote about the changes that Reddit was making to their API pricing, causing some services to shut down, and leading thousands of subreddits to choose to blackout (some temporarily, so…
From the article:
And this bumps up against another part of Cory’s enshittifcation concept: it only works when switching costs are high. Social media can make that work. But I’m not so sure that Reddit has the sheer gravitational pull that social media has. Yes, there are social media-like communities on various subreddits. But, on the whole, the communities are built around topics, and it’s kind of easy to just move elsewhere (again, fediverse options Lemmy and Kbin are already looking pretty nice for that).
Figures that Techdirt is the first (and only so far) place that I've seen to mention Lemmy/Kbin, and also not do a mess of it!
I have a feeling the big surge will be on 7/1. Or at least a second wave when the apps actually go away. I think a lot of folks are in a wait and see hoping Reddit chnages course and the app devs were given exceptions etc. since that may not happen, the real surge will be around then.
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we knew we had the power position when lemmy's world stood it's ground and didn't explode on the day before yesterday.
did anyone expect it to explode after 48 hours past? Like even 1% of reddit user says fuck this I am out going to other format, that's enough to sustain a healthy alternative. (oh, and don't forget these are actual human account migrate as well, not bots.)
Human accounts and generally the main content creators on top of it. The ones who create posts, the ones who drive discussion and commentary.
The bulk of their ad revenue probably comes from lurkers and consumers, but their platform is built entirely on the aggregation of a small subset of the power users. You need both. He doesn't seem to really understand that. Sure you can replace mods, maybe they're better, maybe they're worse, but you can't replace content creators and force conversation.
He's definitely sweating bullets by the way he's throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks.
Truth. I’m hopeful for more meaningful conversations here.
The Reddit community is the one in charge if the ceo doesn't like it then we will go somewhere else and build our own community !
With blackjack and hookers!
We have an entire instance dedicated to porn, so we've got the hookers part covered. Not sure about the blackjack, though.
I mean, honestly? Yeah. People forget that their widespread support and cooperation is ultimately the source of other people's power. Your boss might be able to fire you, but they can't fire everybody.
To be a pedant: They're using "social media" wrong. They mean "social networking site", which Reddit is not. But it absolutely is a "social media" site.
They're right about Reddit's lack of social graph making it much less sticky, though.