The challenge will be finding an actual traditional conservative instance that isn't also a pro-Nazi fascist shithole.

Personally, I'd never even heard of Lemmy, Kbin etc until recent events and thought it was limited to only Mastodon which never really interested me.

The amount of software development recent events have inspired around the Fediverse seems to be just the kick it needed to have a bright future too.

You see this happening on Reddit now when anyone mentions the Fediverse at all. Plenty of replies comparing it to NFTs and other junk from dipshits who will come flocking over to this especially if the stuff Meta is doing takes off.

Reddit won't die in a big catastrophic Digg moment, that was a rare event that doesn't usually happen so blatantly.

However, Reddit has reached its high water mark though, I absolutely agree. It'll slowly continue to bleed good, contributing power users like yourself in favor of becoming an algorithm-run mass-appeal corporate shit hole just like Facebook. It is very sad to see moderators like yourself being treated so poorly though and I hope you stick around here at least somewhat even if it's just for your own sanity.

I think it was a success no matter how mainstream news outlets or Reddit want to spin it.

The mods of subreddits very cleverly pointed out that the direction Reddit is heading in stinks and even all the masses who don't care about it still got the message though being inconvenienced by not having access to their favorite echo chamber for a few days. Just look at all the comments on "should we open up" posts from pissed off mouth breathers basically demanding they return things to normal.

At the end of the day, of cause Reddit was going to force mods to open up their subs or remove them. The mods never really had any power in the situation anyway and the precedent of Reddit just taking over subs was already well established. If Lemmy or Kbin was another 5+ years in development with a couple of much larger communities already well established then the exodus might have approached Digg levels again, but the lack of easy mainstream alternatives means that Reddit was always going to get its way eventually.

People are paid to work on it tho.

Paying people doesn't necessarily translate to what you might want from it.

The timing must have sent ernest's head spinning I think.

I'm happy with the amount of users and activity Lemmy currently has. It doesn't really need go grow though any means other than organically imo.

I don't know if you've seen the official phone app for Reddit but its an even worse version of that. There's no "hot" etc of your subscribed subs, rather it's now a firehose of whatever the algorithm thinks will piss you off enough to interact more with it.

No. My time is worth more than 10k and I'd rather spend it doing stuff I like to do.

Most people won't gel with the free version though as it uses ASCII.

About 95% of the time I spent on Reddit was via a third party app on my phone, so come June 30 I physically can't do that at all.

Thanks good guy Spez for helping me beat this addiction.

They can keep their 60 million threads, most of that is complete trash anyway.

The karma system was great until it wasn't. People become so overly attached to fake internet points it's embarrassing.

Extremely rich man who is surrounded by yes-men and a society believing wealth equals success believes he doesn't do things wrong.

At least he genuinely believes that and it isn't a lie I guess.

I bought a Meta Rift 2 the other day and the thing is a piece of crap. The Kinect was better.

I think the Meta-verse will crash and burn too.

I'm looking forward to June 30 so I can delete RIF off my phone and be done with the joint.

Hit the nail on the head with this. The phone app makes this especially apparent as the front page is a feed of stuff you're not subscribed to but rather what the algorithm thinks will drive engagement. The website with the new interface has the same approach but for now still retains the old functionality too or I think they would have had yet another riot on their hands.

Personally I don't care about the soccer moms, my main concern is all the problems that come with being a mainstream social media platform. Threads threatens to overwhelm the content being generated with all those problems where your Lemmy feed is just going to represent Instagram etc again. Screw that.

On their own instance, that they run. So again, who cares?