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How reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history: Did it, though?
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I just don't understand why mods form big, popular subreddits don't switch over to lemmy/kbin/whatever? If it is sunk cost fallacy that is irrational. They have a big following, all they have to do is say "hey guys, we are moving to another site. Go to sign up." If it is because (as some people suggest, not me) they are power-hungry mods and fear losing that power, it is also irrelevant since they can host their own instance and have all the power they want. If they could organize a blackout, surely they can organize an exodus? What am I missing?
The Star Trek subreddit did this, it's what brought me here.
I think it’s really simple. People are just naturally resistant to change.
In the early days of lemmy.world (literally 1 month ago), the instance was getting flooded with new sign ups, posts, and comments. Performance took a massive nosedive and thus impacting user experience and adoption.
But other the past few weeks, stability has improved significantly. As long as the communities begin to rebuild and contribute useful content, I think over time it will be better than Reddit.
If not the fear of losing power, maybe the fear of losing followers. After all there’s no guarantee that the ordinary reddit user will go through the trouble of creating another account. The fear of starting over might be a deterrent into leaving. Just look at the mods who ended their protest because they will be replaced by reddit.
I get that, but it is irrational. They can plan such a thing, esp. when they do it in ~~concord~~ consort. Just prepopulate the new lemmy communities with some content, ask some regulars/power-posters to become active first. Then setup a site that simplifies the signing-up tot lemmy/kbin and make a big announcement before you abandon reddit. Sure, at first the amount of people will decline. But as Reddit will have problems assigning new mods to all those big subreddits the quality over there will go down further. It won't be an easy or even fast switch, but sometimes it's best to just start over.
Too many want a 1 for 1 replacement at this moment. They can't see that it will take some time to grow.
Or they want/hope things to go back to normal. Change is hard for many. But more and more intrusive ads are coming.
I think when the IPO happens and mods hear about how many tens of millions spez made off their unpaid labor, more mods will question why they are doing it.
Also they can't envision how it could be better
As Henry Ford said, if he asked what people wanted they'd say a faster horse
Also have to contend with the overall laziness / apathy of people. Moving somewhere new is an effort that a heap of people seem to averse to. I get it, they've been on Reddit for years, but with the way Reddit has been negatively interacting with the community you'd think they'd see the writings on the wall and move