Simple question: Will you go back to Reddit and other centralized social media platforms, if Reddit step back from the API changes? The benefits of Reddit are obvisiouly, it has million of users and even small communitys have thousands of users.
For me it's pretty clear, after deleting my Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Discord accounts, the decentraliced Fediverse is my future in social media. Even with an very much smaller community, i'm not willing to be treated as ad-cow for the big corps.
But what do you think about your future in social media? Fediverse or Reddit, Meta, Google and all the others? Or will you go safe and use both, to have an backup option?
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I think I will. Exploring the Fediverse has made me realise how massively oversaturated Reddit has become. It's amazing that you can find a community about any subject you can imagine there, but there's also hella memes and silly content. The smaller userbase here encourages people to actively engage with a bit more critical thought, so I'm finding the quality of discussion to be a lot deeper and more satisfying. If Reddit feels like a frat bar, this feels like the nicer pub down the road with older people.
Even if Reddit backtrack, they've shown how little they care about the community that is responsible for its very success. I don't want to use a platform that sees me purely as ad revenue. I'm excited to see how things develop and how these alternative communities turn out. It feels like I'm watching the development of some type of genuinely new social media platform movement for the first time in a long, long time. Maybe since Google Plus. But hopefully this time it'll stick around!