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?
@Zergling_man another point for Pleroma then.
I built my own search/scraper tool that targets accounts, and 99% of time I target myself.
But pleroma just does that by default, doesn't it?