People discredit every type of protest, IRL or not. I think back to every major protest that’s happened in response to some major event, and the response every time is “That won’t ever work”, “You’re wasting your time”, “Imagine caring about that”.
This isn’t the death of Reddit, not even close to it. Reddit may even get more popular after this. However, that doesn’t mean all of this was pointless.
The Fediverse continues to grow, and that’s genuinely a good thing. Every time a platform fucks up, people give X ActivityPub app a new set of eyes and continue to help developers strengthen these platforms and build up the community.
A lot of times the things we want don’t happen in 1 big moment, it’s a lot of continuous smaller moments that eventually form into something greater.
It’s going to take a lot of effort to build out a new platform, especially one built off the concept of decentralization. I think we should continue to build our communities here, and do our best to help this platform thrive.
I mean, I feel like kbin and lemmy and the whole fediverse thing is working so far. I was worried at first, but then we got federated today and everything popped up and there’s actual engagement across the site. I’m really excited about the future for this.
Yesterday I was spending so much time just posting everything I could to all sorts of pages to try to drive engagement and keep people here and I felt like I was running low on steam and today was a sigh of relief.
This is exactly how I feel too.
It gives me confidence that the more we build a community in this “ecosystem”, as much as I hate that word in this context, the more people will be drawn to it.
I was already feeling some type of way browsing communities, like being thrown back a couple decades to chat rooms and forums. But now, seeing users from kbin and lemmy all together, just hanging out… it feels pretty awesome.
I agree. There’s a long history of articles declaring Mastodon dead and yet it’s still around and working fine for a lot of people. Lemmy and Kbin will probably be similar. Only VC backed sites need a billion users.