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What an odd post. In the same post ostensibly meant to posture strength and solidarity they go out of their way to point out that there is a good chunk of peop
by jrflowers 3y ago
What an odd post.
In the same post ostensibly meant to posture strength and solidarity they go out of their way to point out that there is a good chunk of people that simply cannot live without reddit dot com (in this case a subforum about stopping drinking and a subforum about the war in Ukraine).
These groups have not, can not, will not move away from Reddit. Not only is there no real long term plan in general, there isn’t even a bandaid short-term plan for vulnerable groups.
As far as I can tell the only “alternatives” on offer are slightly varied copies of the Reddit UI offered by a cornucopia of strangers, each fancying themself as the newer, better, more generous and thoughtful versions of the Reddit founders.
It’s a veritable chorus of virtue from a group of people that will read “violentacrez” and knowingly scoff at it even being mentioned, or will Google “violentacrez” for the first time and start writing a defense of their favorite website.
- 8organicbits 3y agoThere's tons of alternatives, just not many that look like reddit clones. If you want funny meme go to tiktok, if you want to talk about news go on any of the news aggregators, if you want to talk about tech come to HN (as many have these last two days), if you want to socialize with people you know go to Facebook, if you want porn the Internet is full of it, art: deviantart, and so on. I've been impressed with the fediverse, and I think I'm going there for good, but I agree it's not ready to replace reddit for the masses. There's real effort happening to build communities there. I'm hopeful.