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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There was a thread on lemmy.ml with somebody suggesting an invite system. One of the devs replied they didn’t have the bandwidth to do it but invited others to look at implementing it, not sure if anybody’s working on.
It’s a good point that the current binary choice of federating vs. not federating isn’t flexible enough. Mastodon has a couple of in-between options, not sure if they’re the right ones, but at least points to some possibilities.
I don’t think this place is inherently any more bot-resistant than reddit, it’s just that bots haven’t started to target it yet.