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I never understood why the fuck you would let a company dominate your content. Something like /r/buildapc is just Tom’s Hardware. We didn’t realize we gave up

• serviceberry 2y ago
  Mind you, we're having this conversation on a link aggregator site owned by a company... Reddit is convenient. It's literally all your interests in one place. And for some interests, it's the best place to go. Most people don't care who owns the platform. Someone always will. It's as abstract as someone telling them that they shouldn't be letting Apple or Microsoft control their OS. To a regular person, the "Linux alternative" isn't freedom, it's letting Canonical run the show.
  • paulryanrogers 2y ago
    Arguably Canonical's hold on the community is much looser than Apple or even Microsoft. Because much of Ubuntu can be forked, much like RHEL was twice forked regardless of RedHat's wishes. Mastodon servers too have a very loose hold on their communities.
• freehorse 2y ago
  Because in the end of the day centralisation of content wins. The same reason that facebook is still the best place for many people in many places of the world to advertise/discover events, or sell/buy stuff, despite its horrible UX for this kind of things. The current problem is not making a good website for X specific thing around human interactions, but how to put things together.