Reddit blackout protest is just like those online petitions. Both are unpredictable about the final results. What are you going to do when you miss r/funny. Use Lemmy? The truth is Reddit admins know there is no alternative. Reddit was ready when Digg 4 happened. I want Reddit to act friendly, but it isn't easy when you take investors' money. They want a return on their investments. It is better to stop using a centralized cloud for everything from SO to Reddit. Let us build independent forums
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At least the mastodon idea is pleasant. We need something like that for forums. But, I guess most users want a centralized cloud for network effect. There is no such thing as a viral post on Mastodon. But with Reddit, Twitter, and other social media centralized, we have viral content, aka the network effect.