I kinda owe this whole protest the fact that my most recent complaints about the internet have finally found an answer in the shape of many place I have discovered, like Lemmy and its instances, Kbin and its instances, Matrix and its instances…
I am finally feeling a little more like I used to when I browsed the internet in the 00s, when I just had so many different places to go for different things, rather than just being actively manipulated into staying in one play that “has it all”. Sure, the fediverse, too, may have the same effect, but its instance actually feel different, and I think I’m seeing different kind of content as well.
There are things that I consider dear to me about Reddit and the communities I discovered there, but if its decline means that I stop mindlessly scrolling it trying to find that “final” stimulation for my brain, and instead start interacting with actually interesting, human-like, and though-out content, then the sacrifice is well worth it. Life changes, and the good changes should be welcome, even if they result from something less than pleasant like this.
Agreed. It feels like this hyper-corporatization of the internet has finally started to wear thin enough that larger numbers of people than ever before are looking to escape the ‘centralized’ web. I left ALL social media (except reddit) over two years ago now, and I never realized how much happier I’d be without what I thought was convenience… and now I’ve dropped reddit too. I sorely miss the early internet, and while we’ll never get those days back, this is the closest it’s felt in literally 10 years for me. I hope this continues along its current trajectory, because it feels… really good?
My concerns is that everyone is kind of getting fractured to different areas, so it’s going to be a long time before we begin to see even remotely the same amount of content. Can we keep it up and be patient, or will we filter back as people inevitably give up?
The only way to prevent that is to get the content here. Share that shit you’ve been keeping quiet.
there are a lot more than 8800 subreddits though, where is this number from?
2 days is not going to do anything, its like an abused wife saying Im leaving you, but I’ll be back in 2 days. You need to leave reddit For Good to make any difference.
I left, deleted all three of my accounts after editing all comments starting I was leaving in protest of the June 2023 API changes.
