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’d beg to differ, honestly. I’d love to see the fediverse take off. We desperately need an alternative to centralised everything where the actions of one company which almost always is profit-motivated can control everything you see and use your data for their own purposes.
I get what you mean by how a smaller community is nice to have, though. But that’s also a benefit of the fediverse - you have a small community of your own with it’s own culture, while not losing the connection to what’s happening outside. And there’s some cross-over that makes it easier to talk to others who aren’t in your own community, without needing to adapt to their culture first.