When the user revolt ends—if it ever does—Reddit’s community won’t ever be the same.

“They’re shooting themselves in the foot,” Mir says. “The content of the users is what makes the platform worth visiting. These hosts kind of run into this confusion that their hosting is the reason people are going there, but it’s really for the other users on the medium.”

  •  rglullis   ( @rglullis@communick.news ) English
    40•1 year ago

    That’s the spirit. We don’t need to complete obliterate reddit to make it the better alternatives viable. We just need to get a minimal mass of people here to keep momentum growing.

    I keep thinking of Taleb’s essay where he talks about how effective a intolerant minority can be on affecting change in general behavior.