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…eddit-like homepage to illustrate my point. And it may have less baggage: https://www.reddit.com/r/fediverse/comments/146695q/federated_reddit_replacement_that_also_has/
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Expand Up @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ The problem with this positive narrative is that these platforms had become impo

Nowadays, you can rely on brands being on X less and less, and even if they are there you can't rely on getting a response. On top of that, I simply don't want to use X 'cos it makes me feel icky. I use Mastodon as an alternative, which I love. But the Fediverse doesn't yet have the penetration to make it anywhere near as reliable as Twitter used to be.

The same sort of thing is true of Reddit. Reddit was such a source of internet-community-truth for people that they [used it instead of Google](https://weirdmarketingtales.com/why-people-are-adding-reddit-to-their-google-searches/) - which is also a testament to how much less effective Google's search engine is nowadays for discovering good results than it used to be. Nowadays, following [their great mod purge](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/are-reddits-replacement-mods-fit-to-fight-misinformation/), there has been a huge dampening of the community and impoverishing of the content, with people experimenting with various alternatives like [Lemmy](https://join-lemmy.org/).
The same sort of thing is true of Reddit. Reddit was such a source of internet-community-truth for people that they [used it instead of Google](https://weirdmarketingtales.com/why-people-are-adding-reddit-to-their-google-searches/) - which is also a testament to how much less effective Google's search engine is nowadays for discovering good results than it used to be. Nowadays, following [their great mod purge](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/are-reddits-replacement-mods-fit-to-fight-misinformation/), there has been a huge dampening of the community and impoverishing of the content, with people experimenting with various alternatives like [Kbin](https://kbin.social/).

In the long term, I hope this is a positive development. I hope we learn our lessons, that [ActivityPub](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub) and Bluesky's [AT protocol](https://atproto.com/) resolve their differences and standardise, that over time people realise that the [Fediverse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse) is the answer. I hope we get to an online social world that is both standardised and decentralised - i.e. where you can reliably follow any person or brand on any platform through a shared public protocol.

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