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I'm under the impression that over time, isolated social media sites may all fall victim to the same patterns. It's not so much that I want reddit to fail, it's that I see it as doomed to eventually fail. The whole fediverse things seems like a game-changer for the internet and free speech.

I didn't get both of your messages.

-Michael Scott

Reddit isn't going to die overnight. It will probably not die at all (at least not as a result of this latest stupidity). And that shouldn't be anyone's goal here, anyways. The goal should be to fracture the monopoly. Let the dregs stay on Reddit. And that's not me calling every redditor at the moment a dreg. I mean allow it to devolve into that, just like how Twitter is devolving into nothing but twits.

Trust me, reddit remaining alive is good for the fediverse. Let it become an echo chamber that helps contain the kind of person no one needs over here. This is going to be a slow process. The fact that this site is already functional is a really good sign that the process is going to work. Don't rush it, just sit back and let it happen.

The username of the commenter is so ironic. The guy who invented transcendental meditation did the same thing to meditation that spez did to reddit's API. TM is meditation's superfluous third nipple and heavily monetized. Anyone can meditate for free, but for it to be considered "transcendental", you must pay a certified teacher and learn through them. I guess some people just like it when people are charged for things unnecessarily.

Exactly. They might try to have a site event of some sort, but it won't be place. They're dumb, but I don't think they're quite that dumb.

So Ernest is earnest? Cool.