Simple question: Will you go back to Reddit and other centralized social media platforms, if Reddit step back from the API changes? The benefits of Reddit are obvisiouly, it has million of users and even small communitys have thousands of users.
For me it’s pretty clear, after deleting my Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Discord accounts, the decentraliced Fediverse is my future in social media. Even with an very much smaller community, i’m not willing to be treated as ad-cow for the big corps.
But what do you think about your future in social media? Fediverse or Reddit, Meta, Google and all the others? Or will you go safe and use both, to have an backup option?
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That’s a difficult question for me. I’m a mod of a small niche subreddit over there. I don’t like the idea of leaving that small community to die, and I’m not sure I could rebuild it here. But at the same time the enshittification of Reddit is progressing in a way I’m not at all comfortable with. I’m definitely in on the blackout, but I’m not sure what it’ll take to make me stay or make me leave after that.