I see a lot of posts on fediverse trashing reddit, Twitter, spez, musk and so on, and rightfully so. But like it or not, the mass majority of users on the internet still use these sites, and some of us still want to interact with the friends and communities we are a part of on those sites. And there’s nothing wrong with that either.

Personally, I want fediverse to grow, and I post on kbin and mastodon constantly, and try to grow the communities on them. But I still pop over to reddit for r/splatoon, r/casualconveration, and my hometown sub, because either the communities haven’t grown enough here yet for constant fresh content, or the content is different enough between both to justify me checking in.

I get many are here as a protest against reddit, Twitter, or where ever else you came from, and that’s valid. But there are many of us who are simply casual users who want to include fediverse into their drives of other social media, and that’s totally fine too.

  • amprebel
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    1 year ago

    You vote at the ballot and with your dollar and data. It’s easy to stand by your values once every 2 or 4 years and cast your vote, but it’s harder and, I’d argue, possibly more important, to withdraw support from corporations that you disagree with. It’s impossible to get this right all the time, but in the case of Facebook, Twitter, and reddit they make it easy for us to see if we want to support them.