I mean there’s Reddit ofc, as well as Twitter in its entirety, Discord is implementing some dumb updates, there are issues with Tumblr as well as everything to do with Meta, and I’m sure there are plenty more (and I haven’t even touched other digital media, for example the Sims). Why is it all happening in the span of about a couple months?
I honestly feel like - and this is just my thought, no data to back it up - all the major companies or sites felt like they were the only ones around, there was nothing to replace them, so they could make whatever decisions they wanted to make.
Like when we all left Digg for Reddit - Reddit was already a thing so it was a relatively “painless” switch. With this one it’s like… Musk took over twitter and I sort of heard about the fediverse but I’m personally waiting for Hive to get a desktop - but once Reddit started doing it’s thing it was like “yeah I really need to move now” and kbin had a much better landing page than any of the other fediverse things I’d stumbled upon which really helped with the onboarding… And it’s been nice watching it grow.
But yeah previous to this it was like…there was nothing else available so why did they have to care about what they did if we were “stuck” there with the decisions they were making anyway.
lol…and yet here I am on kbin so - yeah looks like that plan (assuming it’s at all correct) didn’t pan out entirely like they were hoping.
Careful with Hive. It is perfectly positioned to suffer the exact same fate as Twitter if it is allowed to grow. Then we have learned nothing and it all just repeats. Never mind that the app is absolutely atrocious both from a data security standpoint and an accessibility standpoint.