Formerly /u/neoKushan on reddit

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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • The subs going dark should have only been half of the protest. Users should have also stayed away from the site but I don’t think that was really coordinated.

    The number of new posts didn’t drop much, the comments dropped a bit more but only by like 20%, which isn’t a lot given the amount of subs that went dark. Reddit doesn’t care about subs, they care about users and it seems engagement was still pretty high.

    The next protest should be to all users to stop using the site. Drop the users and they’ll start to listen.



  • I disagree, it’s easy to say that a barrier to entry is good because it keeps out trolls and those that just want to insight hate, but really those people will find a way when anything gets popular enough to bother with. Meanwhile, that same barrier prevents a lot of underserved people joining in and they’re left to deal with the same toxic people we’re trying to avoid ourselves.

    The centralised services didn’t succeed because they were centralised, they succeeded because they lowered the barrier to entry drastically. It’s a lot easier to do that when you’re centralised, but that’s something we’ll have to overcome if we want this community and others like it to succeed. Otherwise we’ll just slowly die inside our own echo chamber.



  • That’s not moving your identity though, that’s creating a new identity that subscribes to the same communities. There’s an important distinction there, there’s no way to clearly identify yourself as you having moved, which conversely also means there’s no way to be assured that some other account is not an impersonator.

    Don’t get me wrong, it’s good to know that if a server were to disappear that I could just create an account on another one but it’s still a distinction that causes some issues today that will need to be ironed out in future.