I thought I’d be checking to see if it was still running, a burning crater, or unaffected (nobody left Reddit). I’m happy to see an uptick in conversation.
I thought I’d be checking to see if it was still running, a burning crater, or unaffected (nobody left Reddit). I’m happy to see an uptick in conversation.
Where votes are labeled “favourites” :)
In a way I like that this is all openly public vs just the devs and admins being able to see it. Either way somebody was going to pay attention but now it’s obvious to users.
This makes sense — but if nobody knows it there is lots of room for confusion.
“Boost” seems more like “updoot” than “retweet“. Perhaps more importantly why would one retweet a comment? Rather than a post?
Idk if reddit will actually “die”
I think it depends on us users. If we can make a community work here in the federated space well enough to draw users then reddit might really go away.
But if they manage to kill off 3rd party devs, APIs and etc quickly before these alternatives are baked enough to work for their users and these existing federated tools aren’t good enough – then they’ll just maintain via the network effect.
this is important. e-bikes displace regular bikes and pedestrians.
they could displace cars & motorcycles. but that would take a cultural shift in addition to a technical shift.
for example in my neighborhood tons of kids are now riding ebikes around. instead of regular bikes. and they’re dumb (read: young and haven’t bashed their head enough yet) kids so they make the existing walking and bike paths dangerous with their “three up and reading texts while riding too fast” behavior. (I’m not joking; true scary event while walking the dog). They are mostly smart enough to avoid playing in traffic (drat!) which means they’re causing pain for pedestrians and not cars.
As far as I can tell (small sample size) once one of them gets a car they switch and drive their car at speed while still looking at their phones. Presumably the rich kids get electric cars.
I’d vote heavily for more and better bike lanes on all the surface streets. Or a city ordinance that lets them ride their ebikes in traffic like mopeds. Perhaps stricter speed limits on the cars to make this safer. These would be cultural (legal) shifts that help ebikes displace cars.