The real federation is the password manager in our browsers.

One thing that irritates me about Reddit is how it's converged with the rest of twitter, instagram and tiktok to be just endless scrolling through memes, gifs and videos. Reddit is so far from it's roots and killing third party apps really does remove that old avenue. I do feel like commenting is going to reduce as people just mindlessly scroll through content without really engaging it anymore.

Yeah I'm guessing as the need for moderation of content grows as user activity on a server grows, server operators have the same growing responcibility for DMCA takedowns as well.

Someone should create server that uses the Reddit API for oauth. This way people can verify their Mastadon usernames match their Reddit usersnames.

They've waited a long time to profit from our conversations online for a long time. I mean back in the day reddit didn't host any content directly until self posts were created. For images and videos you'd always link to YouTube or giffy. Reddit ran quite cheaply and effeciently.

First Reddit wanted to own the content which is starting offering to host images and videos inside it's product and now they're about to paywall it off and wrap it in adverts for their own client. It's about taking your content and owning it in the sense they can charge for it and it's taken a few steps to realise this.

Whether kbin or lemmy or any alternative survives, people should always prefer the approach of keeping content platform netural. Outside of individual forums and walled gardens. Host things outside of slack, outside of Reddit, outside of Facebook so that it's open to the whole internet and for new platforms in the future.

Reddit users who want to continue to enjoy Reddit communities should still try and host outside the platform for the benefit of others.

Oh look at this image of a single pair of scissors. ;-)