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what would Reddit need to do to get you to go back (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not trying to convince anyone to go back i promise, quite the contrary actually cause I think spez plans to just decrease the cost of the API and act like it was a bargain deal sacrifice while not solving any of the issues at all

But, when I think about it even if spez did actually listen and reverse all changes I don't think i want to go back to Reddit cause from what Ive seen Lemmy is just friendlier and less :Be Corporate Friendly: I would honestly love it if Lemmy did a project like r/place one of these days so we could see what the internet is actually like instead of what happened in 2022 (I really did enjoy what a bunch of communities did but when the mods started abusing their powers to make it corporate r/place lost so much meaning) but i am curious since i'm not going back is there anything Reddit can do to make you go back to Reddit?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It very well could in the future. But the federated model slows it down compared to Reddit et al. where there's centralized control, at worst a single instance will develop a contained hivemind. If that happens to yours, you can just hop to a new one. If someone is really concerned, they can just spin up their own brand new instance, or fork the code and create something themselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting, I didn't think about that possibility. It gets better all the time 😁

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Right this is a huge win in my mind. Should lemmy.ml/c/technology become tainted... well.. any other instance/c/technology can simply be my preference. You don't have to be on the biggest version of the community... you can pick what version suits you and nobody "owns" it. A lot of subreddits on reddit are effectively owned by the company/game it's named for rather than being fan/user driven. It stifles communication/content generation when the watchful eye of the company is at play.