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Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

I feel like internet users have become so lazy, stubborn, and resistant to change. I'm pretty sure it used to be easier to get people to move to new things like new forums, Xfire, Ventrillo, IRC, ICQ, AIM... people used to try new things

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Companies have done this on purpose. They all want you to stay in their walled garden, their "ecosystem" of various products. So they make it easy to get into and get connected to people and things, and then make it hard to leave because you're "invested."

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    I’m pretty sure it used to be easier to get people to move to new things like new forums, Xfire, Ventrillo

    In some respects it was somewhat easier to get them to be on multiple platforms instead of moving. Think of the original messenger proliferation, where sometimes people would be on IRC, XMPP, AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, or etc. so much so that you had software like Pidgin and Trillian to help consolidate server/chat rooms and friends lists to more easily chat with all your contacts.

    Even with Ventrilo, I remember being open to also switching to Mumble or vice versa if there was some hiccup with either.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    Eh, not everyone is fit to be a moderator.

    I don't feel I have the time (this issue is made worse by my timezone not aligning up with the most active hours for communities), nor do I have the maturity and level-headedness to be a fair and impartial moderator.

    E: oops replying 3 days later. I'm surprised this thread is still in my feed...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    There have always been people like that, it's just more noticeable now because the numbers are larger.

    People still use MySpace and Digg, and there are people on Bluesky, Mastodon, here, etc.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    It's in its afterlife phase right now. Much of the comment sections on any given subreddit are full of newbies using colloquialisms from other platforms. e.g. Users call subreddits "groups" which I think originates from Facebook. Or users trying to "bump" posts. There's a lot of signs that the core userbases are gone.

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