because it’s obtuse, i don’t even understand it
inertia and better algorithms to maximize engagement.
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Network effect. The people they care about are already in those places. Their family, grandma, a distant part of the family on the other side of the world, their favorite celebrities, people they went to college with, etc.
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They don’t know about the fediverse.
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They don’t care about privacy or things like an open web or corporate control. They “have nothing to hide” and think it’s pointless to resist corporate enclosure of the internet plus the centralized platforms are free and store their photos for them and take only things they can’t see.
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The content isn’t as good. I find way more news and discussion on reddit vs here.
What is the Fediverse?
This is a certified “Suvi, you’re Korean” moment
Lemmy (this social media platform) along with everything that’s linked with it like mastodon.
What makes a social media platform good is, well, socializing, so people are naturally going to flock to where the most people already are. I am only here because I am blocked from r*ddit.
I have been known by so many users names in Reddit. You can just create a new account.
No I cannot. I am blocked. Not banned.
give it like a year or so and it’ll work.
How does blocking work when it’s pretty easy to get a new MAC address and IP while also using a different browser like Mullvad’s? Or even use an entirely different device on an entirely different network?
reddit doesn’t block just using ip, they also detect ban evasion by user behaviour
Tried that. Didn’t work. I have tried tons of different IPs with different mac addresses and tons of different browsers and even tried signing up entirely in a virtual machine. At best my account will stay up until I start posting and joining subreddits and it can detect who I am based on how I use the site/what I type.
Are you using the same network for those different approaches? If so, it could be your network. That or you have quite a unique online fingerprint. I’d be curious to know what it is they do when blocking someone, that’d make it much easier to work around.
Changing networks doesn’t work either.
Reddit is not God 🤣
From a purely practical standpoint, big platforms have (potential) reach that small ones simply don’t. Sometimes the censorship is so bad it’s hard to make use of that reach, depending on what message you’re trying to do, but nevertheless, it is a factor.
