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The Reddit Blackout Is Breaking Reddit
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Look, I am happy as long as there are enough people on lemmy and kbin to have a fun website here. I can go and visit reddit now and then to see what kind of stuff they're upvoting, that's not a problem. But I want the potentially better alternatives to grow.
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.
Brilliant. Thank you for posting that.
I just downloaded the whole book; I'm not really interested in the markets, so I've been avoiding Taleb, but that essay has made me rethink that.
Exactly. Reddit itself should be a case study. Lemmy and Kbin offer an opportunity to build something great and learn from what made current Reddit (the good and the terrible) what it is and some things to avoid.
The only real problem with Reddit is Reddit Inc.
You're right, Lemmy/etc represent a great opportunity for the users and mods to regain control over the communities they build.