Can Reddit survive as its volunteer workforce close down subreddits and walk away from the site in protest at the management's new policies?

Huffman has said, “We are not in the business of giving that [Reddit’s content] away for free.” That stance makes sense. But it also ignores the reality that all of Reddit’s content has been given to it for free by its millions of users. Further, it leaves aside the fact that the content has been orchestrated by its thousands of volunteer moderators.

touché

  • Serinus@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The biggest mistake* Mastodon made was that they promoted “Mastodon” instead of a specific instance.

    I think they’re absolutely right to just pick an instance and recommend that, or if that instance doesn’t work, try this other one. Which instance they pick is not what I care about more than just picking some specific instance. Beehaw may or may not have been the best choice, but I’m glad they picked one.

    *I understand why Mastodon wanted to be neutral, but it was horrible for onboarding people.

    • LoreleiSankTheShip@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Agreed. As someone not into microblogging, I just wanted to check what Mastodon was about when the Twitter drama went on, but couldn’t be bothered understanding federation just to check a site out.