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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There's a massive inertia from reddit being the go-to social network for enthusiasts, it will need years if you want it to be fully replaced by something else. I will keep lemmy, but i believe going back to reddit is a smart choice... for now.
It's not a binary decision, they're not mutually exclusive.
It's like arguing about browsers. I use Firefox and I use Chrome every day.
I've been using mastodon & reddit everyday, but while I've had a lemmy account for a long while but until now the community hasn't been well aligned with my interest.
If just a third of the current active users stick around I can see it becoming part of my daily scrolling.
Being a member of the Fediverse is an investment in the future I feel. There's not tons right now like on Reddit, but you can stick around and help build it by posting, commenting and voting. Alternatively, you can come back in a few years when this is the way that new communities form.
Reddit's behaviour is a statement of intent for the future, to make money at all costs, sell up and become another advertiser friendly walled garden like Instagram. That's fine for them, but I have no interest in being part of that.
Thats a very fair take.