@feditips Thanks for making me aware of Kbin I was only previously aware of Lemmy, which (as you've covered yourself) is not really a viable option.

@feditips I don’t think fediverse is going to enter the general vocabulary.

@feditips since yesterday I didn't even know that such alternative exists. Seems reddit doesn't know about Streisand effect

@feditips @charles_ex

@feditips I went and overwrote every question and answer I had on my over 5 year old account on reddit and then deleted my account in a protest after the AMA.

As many people have pointed out, reddit's value comes from its userbase who contribute on the website. Many people like me often google with "reddit" as a prefix to find answers to questions.

So glad r/RedditAlternatives pointed me towards fediverse!

@feditips what an admirable bastion of free speech

@feditips

This is a long read, but it very succinctly explains why these things inevitably always will happen on centralized systems:

https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

@feditips they're absolutely shameless

@feditips reminds me of twitter trying to suppress mastodon migration

@feditips

#RedditCensorship takes #Elmo's #BorgSite approach and eliminated #Fediverse entry.

https://mstdn.social/@feditips/110519237586930084

Act now to protect your content and use the #Fediverse's #FOSS alternatives:

#Lemmy or #Kbin:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110516948024413608

#JoinTheFediverse.net
#jointhefediverse

@feditips

It is in the design, centralised platforms should be discouraged. Its just not safe when going beyond a certain size and also not democratic. Substandard hence. Rules and regulations can help here, given the potential high impact we have seen with these platforms on society…

@feditips
I call it Twitterfication.

@feditips guess they really are fearful of people moving off Reddit after all.
Surely they should support a free and open internet...

The idea of people hating and leaving Reddit terrifies them. If Reddit was such a great platform they shouldn't have anything to worry about. Yet years of never delivering on promises has finally and justly come back to haunt them.

@feditips LOL, Reddit going full Twitter.

@feditips sorry for a really dumb question on Kban…how do I sign up with my mastodon user name? What’s the proper format? I keep getting a “match format” message. I’m not sure why I’m struggling with. Mastodon was a breeze compared to this. 😔

@feditips Got a quick primer for how to use Kbin somewhere? It says it will automatically make magazines or whatnot based on interest, but does that mean I sign myself up to be a moderator?

@feditips that's hilarious, imagine being so scared that you start barring the doors and blocking people from leaving.

Reddit death spiral, and I'm here for it.

@feditips Of COURSE this was going to happen! OF COURSE!

@feditips I can confirm that the mods in the Discord organising the Reddit protest are discussing alternatives. The problem is that the value in a social network comes from scale. Reddit was great because on any topic you could guarantee a strong community. Add "Reddit" to any Google Search and you'd be guaranteed a good result. It's going to be very hard to replicate that benefit in the fediverse, even if I hope it can happen.

@feditips They banning the subreddit related to Kbin (which is made by a Polish developer would like to note) means that the migration works.

At least, the banned subreddits' names show up so people know where to run away.