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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Im definetly staying on lemmy and fediverse.
I think that if someone understands what is lemmy and fediverse and how it is different than reddit than it will apriciate it and will stay.
But if that one doesnt understand and see lemmy just like another forum. And judges it by the looks of platform and ease of use, than it may wery easy switch to platform like reddit.
Which is bad because on reddit since it funkcions like it does there are many forbiden topics and deleted posts. Also threads that reddit doesnt allow me to see and so on. Which directly forbids people to speak freely.
I think its like svitching to linux. I swiched a couple of years ago but i understood how linux is diferent and thats why i newer go back and newer will. But someone that switched because linux is more customisable and you can change the look of it as you please and doesnt understand trye diferences will easily switch bac to windows if they release new version with better looks…
So the cay in my opinion is to share more informacion about how things are, so people can understand and see for themselfs why its the real deal.