He got a company and a social media that is remarkable, and recognizable, and even has an action verb related to it, “tweet, to tweet, tweeting”.

And he decided to piss on it and create the X app. Adding insult to injury is that it’s again, another techy black and white logo. Of course, because that’s the silicon valley trend isn’t it, black and white clean minimalist corporate logo, no soul, no community, just corporate all along.

Yep, I kind of forgot the exact word for it, I used “older demographic” because im my local FB community, quite a number of toxics (and teaching people to be toxic) are more often than not, poor role models. I also forgot that outside of my country, there are early internet nerdys that lived throughout basically the age of Internet. So my choice of words are quite incorrrect, but yep they are precisely what you said, low-literacy.

And yes, FB, Twitter and Reddit will most likely thrive and live, by catering to those people instead of the nerdy, hobbyist group of people that once graced Reddit.

I can’t help but shudder at the thought that Reddit will be yet another Twitter or Facebook.

True. People just see this one 48 hour blackout and telling everyone that not that much people will leave reddit. Yeah not that much, if you just see this one incident. We still have the D-Day of 30th June, and subsequent waves if reddit CEOs decided to fuck things further. We just have to wait.

If they think people will left reddit in droves and reddit will shutdown during the blackout, yeah they are wrong. The blackout is about awareness, and during this short 48 hours, we already discovered swathes upon swathes of reddit alternatives, some are bigger than other, some are livelier than other, all within their communities yet federating each other, far from whateverthefuck spez is doing. And for that, the blackout is successful.

Lemmy or Kbin might be small, but hey, at least we can quite certain that we are human contributors, not bots.

This is just my personal opinion. The 2 day blackout for me, never meant for people to pack their bags and leave Reddit entirely. It’s not a very easy task to do, and honestly, there is still lots of contents and friends back in reddit. Reddit can be sure that lots of people will simply come back, and spez will grinning while working his way to his beloved IPO.

However, the 2 day blackout has opened a new world of alternatives to Reddit. Now people know other places and other communities that can replace Reddit as a whole. Yes, Reddit will still be an influential website. Yes, Reddit will still be money driven. Yes, spez will not budge. But we can.

To me, Reddit will not crash, burn and crushed to ash. But rather, it’s either went the FB way, relying to lots of ads and ~~older demographics ~~ low-literacy to sustain, or simply becoming Myspace or Digg, a distant memory that’s only in name.

Just my 1/2 cents.

Edit: changed some inacurrate words

Agreed. Honestly, if I want a FB-like Reddit, fuck that, I’ll going to Facebook.

Enshittification sucks I would say.

you don’t mention the copious, copious amounts of ads and sponsored contents

wow thanks reddit, you are more and more Facebook-like now, congratulations.

when even NSFW subs going protesting you know reddit done a big fuckup

Well. It’s his right then.

It’s also our right to walk out of the crumbling house. Unlike FB and Twitter which still has core (and over reaching) followers that still remain there, Reddit may face a slow burning death.

Oh well, it’s a fun ride. Goodbye to the communities and hobbyists.

True. Even my country’s subreddit, r/Malaysia and r/Singapore have this rare cooperation and shut down at the same time. Well, of course we should exclude subs with supermods, which is pretty big ones, but meh, it’s not the supermods that are generating content for reddit, the community is. I just hope we will have a mass blackout/mass walkout on the 30th. History does not repeat, but it does rhyme.

Literally more than 1/5 of the subreddits gone dark.

Meta …nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope

I’m only on Facebook just because of family and some IRL friends. My instagram is pretty much dead. And I would not going to join yet another Meta platform seeing how a cesspool Facebook is now.