Given the “anyone can join in” nature of the fediverse, something like this was inevitable. I expected it to be at least be another couple of years, though.

There is potential good for this- a lot more developer resources going into this technology. And being open source software, there’s a lot of ways we can potentially mitigate any damage if we have to. But… there’s definitely a lot of ways this can go poorly as well.

It’s interesting watching all the people here that… this is clearly their first time experiencing this cycle.

Yeah. Reddit was never going to magically die overnight. If it dies, it’s going to be a long and slow process. But that process starts with with some number of us jumping ship and focusing on bringing alternatives like Lemmy to life.

Probably depends on what you’re looking for? Active seems likes it’s for looking for posts with active comment threads, Hot seems likes it’s for posts that have a number of recent upvotes.

(Not sure if this is accurate, this is just the mental picture I’ve painted for myself)