It doesn't matter, it's a bait to raise engagement metrics and a lot of people are falling for it.
Ulu-Mulu-no-die
joined 1 year ago
But beehaw users can interact with .world communities if they want, it's .world users that wouldn't see it.
There's probably no purpose in doing that, but it is possible.
I don't know about kbin but it's certainly possible on lemmy:
(i.e. non beehaw members cannot post on beehaw, but beehaw members can go interact on other instances). But as far as I understand that’s not how it works.
It depends, you believe that's not how it works because you're thinking of both sides defederating each other, but defederation is one-side.
For example, beehaw defederated from lemmy.world but lemmy.world didn't defederate from beehaw, so lemmy.world people cannot participate on beehaw but beehaw can participate on lemmy.world.
It's actually a bit more complicated than that, since lemmy.world people can still participate in beehaw discussions but only lemmy.world people would see those comment, I think also other instances that are not defederated can but I'm not sure about this.
I don't think beehaw doesn't fit the fediverse, I do believe it doesn't fit every user.
As I understand it, they want to be a safe place for a very specific audience, that is, people afraid to be harassed for who they are, that could also include people with extreme social anxiety, that's why it's so heavily policed and they defederate from a lot of other instances.
It's like having a heavily moderated subreddit, you wouldn't say it doesn't fit reddit just because they don't accept contribution from everyone.
The purpose of the fediverse is to have things spread out so one or few nodes dying doesn't affect the entire system, it's also about avoiding corporate control, the same principles on which the internet was founded.
I don't think it means having to trust everyone or accepting everyone into your local group.
I agree, my point is that as long as the masses stay there, reddit will appear fine, garbage to us obviously but I think we are a minority of the reddit userbase.
I use Firexox and I found it in its addon repository, just search the name.
Many subs reopened but they're still protesting in very creative ways.
User traffic back to normal means people are now posting as much as before, it doesn't mean reddit itself is back to normal, unless you consider spamming Oliver pictures everywhere, literal steam on r/steam. all users "promoted" to mods, NSFW content where it shouldn't be, etc, as being "normal".
I'd be much more interested in knowing how all this is affecting ad revenues and investors opinions, but it seems this kind of info is really hard to find.
Are advertisers backing off for example, realizing that porn could pop up unexpectedly in subs they sell their ads in? Are investors realizing reddit is a very risky business, not only because users can protest any time, but also because they showed they can literally crash the entire platform?
Another dip in traffic will occur when apps stop working July 1st, after that I believe things will go slowly back to normal, "real" normal this time.
Many users are already migrating to alternatives, but I believe it will take quite a long time before the masses realize reddit is a sinking ship.
Mods should quit moderating altogether IMO, more than 20 thousands participated in the protest, there's no way they could replace them all in a reasonable time-frame, it would be a much better chaos than the blackout.
The only thing those people are signalling, in my opinion, is that it doesn't take much to bait people into engaging with reddit to give them traffic, can't wait for an article about how metrics are going up so investors have nothing to worry about.