The feeling of ownership, of oh I can go host an instance at home and knowing that you aren't at the whim of corporate admins or a company's poor fortune, is so incredibly cool. I really hope more decentralized/selfhostable alternatives to major services start to take off.

Reddit’s popularity will slowly fade

Reddit definitely screws things up often enough for regular waves of recruitment lol

The high number of users on .world is because it still has open registration

I wonder if accounts on certain servers will be "prestigious" one day lol

^ Lenovo tiny thinkcenters are the best thing ever. Heck, I use the older haswell-era M73s that you can get for $30-40 on ebay and they're amazing. Only drawback is no m.2 and no PCIe expandability but if you're on a budget and want a starter homelab you can literally cluster 3 of these things for ~$100

Reddit content quality isn't nearly this high

There's a large overlap between people who are sympathetic to terrible dictators and people who would be happy to be dictators

The idea that anything that doesn't reach Twitter scale is a failure is annoying as hell

Can't expect the millions of people who don't even understand what an API is to care about the API changes. Hell, I didn't use a 3rd party app or really care about the API changes but I've wanted to get into the fediverse and disliked reddit for a long time, so it's as good an excuse as anything.

wow what a centrist username I truly believe this comment

rather than leaving the platform, find or host yourself an instance that blocks the tankie instances... I'm loving sh.itjust.works so far, which blocks lemmygrad.ml - that's the beauty of federation

On the other hand sending people to a list of servers that includes stuff like lemmygrad and yiffit pretty high on the list is... a potential turnoff

I mean, it's kinda in it's first week of real content output so there's obviously not gonna be a lot here yet