The reddit blackout is even more effectivte than expected! 5177/8829 (~60%) of subreddits are still dark [1] and the posts per minute are down to 1000 from 1400 [2].
This is huge. Subreddits were supposed to be back up yesterday. I personally missed Reddit the first day but now I am super comfortable here.
Glad to have found a new place to hang out!
Edit: Reddit has 100k subs, 60% out of those who officially signed up
Let’s not have too rose colored glasses. A lot of it is because lemmy and kbin are tiny and haven’t received their “eternal September” moment yet. It’s bound to get worse so I hope our moderation tools will evolve sufficiently until then
While you’re not wrong, the fact that it’s an open and decentralized protocol and not a corporate-controlled silo makes the ultimate outcomes of the fediverse unpredictable. Better for actual human users, I think, and at least it’ll be interesting to watch and participate in while those outcomes develop (likely over years if not decades).