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The Reddit Blackout Is Breaking Reddit (www.wired.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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“They’re shooting themselves in the foot,” Mir says. “The content of the users is what makes the platform worth visiting. These hosts kind of run into this confusion that their hosting is the reason people are going there, but it’s really for the other users on the medium.”

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree it needs to be more intuitive, however, I would argue that Linux is far more intuitive than it used to be. Still, people didn't switch.

Another driving force is that people don't like change, and people use whatever others use. TikTok bought another company just to get their userbase, it's that important.

The fediverse is fighting an uphill battle. You'd have to provide a platform that is far more intuitive and engaging than the competition, while relying on volunteer labour.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People switch behavior patterns for a reason. It doesn't matter how good or bad either option is, most people won't even be aware that switching to something else is an option until whatever they are currently doing fails to meet their needs in some way.

We just saw this play out with Kbin and Lemmy. It wasn't something inherent about them that suddenly increased the userbase. It was an external event. The Fediverse just happened to exist already, but if Huffman hadn't gone on an ego trip then they probably would have stayed very small things for the forseeable future no matter how good the experience was.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It wasn’t something inherent about them that suddenly increased the userbase. It was an external event.

I agree.

However, we are the users that didn't get bothered by Lemmy's the interface, but were bothered by Huffman enough to leave.

Most people won't leave their comfort zone unless the external event is much larger than this. If all the mods suddenly left and reddit just became a spam-filled dumspter fire. That would affect reddit's usability enough that would make Lemmy's UX shortcomings enough for the average person to bear.