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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Even with “all the fuck ups from Twitter”, their traffic is down only 4-5%.

    It’s going to take a lot more than just waiting for them to fuck up. Network effects are real and the big companies spent the last 18 years making sure that they built enough moat around their fiefdoms.

    Protests are not enough. “Strikes” were the leaders announce beforehand how long they will paralyze is not enough. Depending on moderators who are more worried about losing their status with their masters is not enough.

    We need to treat this as a fight. Get all the tooling that can be used to make as easy as possible to migrate and ensure that people can get their dose of dopamine away from Reddit. Then things will start looking better.




  • If my theoretical approach causes people to leave, that’s OK.

    Right, but that will also mean that the community will no longer be “big”. That’s my point.

    If mods started going as far as deleting threads on the basis of “this discussion is already beaten to death and is not bringing anything new”, you can bet that this will be taken as an act of “censorship” and will cause everyone to leave to form their own factions - except maybe the ones that are aligned with the mods enough to understand the principles behind the decision.