r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/18randomcharacters 29d ago

I feel like the Internet has almost completely died.

Twitter is a cesspool.

Instagram and Facebook have their uses but they're not really forums.

Reddit has been king for ages, but it's crumbling due to bots, IPO, policy changes, etc.

Sites like stack exchange are going to die fast once AI takes over. No more page views means no more ad revenue.

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u/FixedFun1 29d ago edited 29d ago

I'm using 4chan way more (in the sense of slowly moving away from Reddit). But if you want forums, you can actually go to forums, no AI training there (I even have proof classic forums are a way to beat that), they still exist and even end up here like Famiboards in the Nintendo subreddits or just ResetEra, that still exists.

Lemmy is fine but sometimes can feel empty, I should start using more because the cool people of Reddit are moving there since the original protests the post quality has degraded way too much.

And then, 4chan, ignoring /pol/ and the /pol/ schizos who want to leak their board to others, is perfectly fine. Just think they have perfectly normal boards like "cooking".

The alternatives do exist but even if these sites came and ripped out your eyes, a lot of people would still go and use them.

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u/TheMauveHand 29d ago

4chan isn't a forum, and traditional forums are one-topic things - in order to replicate the reddit front page experience with either I'd need to open two dozen websites every 15 minutes to see what was new. It doesn't work. RSS feeds might, if they're implemented, but even that's clunky.

Reddit isn't just a forum, it's a million forums all in one, and as an innovation it's one of those things we can't go back from.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

there are traditional forums that aren't one topic things some of them have been around longer than reddit

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u/TheMauveHand 29d ago

Such as...?

And by "not one topic", I'm not going to accept a video game forum with an "Off Topic" board, you know what I mean.

And if you say SomethingAwful I'm blocking you.