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2 years agoIdk 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 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?