Reddit blackout protest is just like those online petitions. Both are unpredictable about the final results. What are you going to do when you miss r/funny. Use Lemmy? The truth is Reddit admins know there is no alternative. Reddit was ready when Digg 4 happened. I want Reddit to act friendly, but it isn't easy when you take investors' money. They want a return on their investments. It is better to stop using a centralized cloud for everything from SO to Reddit. Let us build independent forums
At least the mastodon idea is pleasant. We need something like that for forums. But, I guess most users want a centralized cloud for network effect. There is no such thing as a viral post on Mastodon. But with Reddit, Twitter, and other social media centralized, we have viral content, aka the network effect.
@nixCraft there definitely is such a thing as a viral fediverse post, virals happen via people sharing stuff with each other and centralized algorithms only amplify that at best.
You can also have content discovery on a decentralized platform, after all the data on public posts is public. Even better, you can have multiple independent algos so that you're not stuck with potentially dumb decisions of one.
@Zergling_man wasn't there a full-text search project a few months ago that was taken down due to apocalyptic levels of butthurt from people suddenly not wanting their public posts to be public?
But pleroma just does that by default, doesn't it?
@Zergling_man another point for Pleroma then.
I built my own search/scraper tool that targets accounts, and 99% of time I target myself.
