You can use the Web Archive, if those posts are saved, you'll see it without ever touching a reddit server. You can't comment or give awards or anything, but you're not locked out completely.
Or you can use a 3rd party app. The team behind Youtube Revanced have patched most of the major (Android) ones to still function afterwards. https://web.archive.org/web/20230705025421/https://www.reddit.com/r/AfterVanced/comments/14m3wgo/reddit_apps_for_which_patches_andor_patched/
Centralization. Meta will develop the fediverse protocol up with their own specific enhancements, locking most of us onto their version of the platform due to convenience given enough time. (Think RCS as an example, it's technically an open standard but Google has effective control of it thanks to special features)
You might say "Well, if they are a better platform, so what, why not go there", but the problem is that they can cut off the rest of the fediverse as "outdated" essentially privatizing everybody.
Yes.
Ah, yes, I was waiting for the Taliban to tell me which one of these two online clusterfucks to start using.
I'm surprised they even care about Twitter, wouldn't they want to be underground?
Good. Hell, once the user-instance blocking thing comes out, give people a list and instructions to block those political instances, porn ones, etc. etc. I always like it to be on the user level, rather than some over-arching force telling me what I can and can't view. Freedom to make the decision for yourself should be a large priority.
I would have preferred to have a no-defederation policy (except for maybe threads due to EEE fears), but as long as it is not swung around constantly, I am okay with it.
The two that are blocked are political circlejerks that I personally dislike anyways. I am hopeful there is not more.
Because an ad or a subscription is more obvious.
Algorithms are harder to prove and don't interrupt the flow of content, thus less people get pissed, which means less people leave, and they can charge higher rates to advertisers.
Most lurkers view the Twitter/TikTok reposts Reddit is full of, which have not slowed down, or the ""advice"" subreddits, which have not slowed down either.
The content that people like us like, some of it has moved away, but the people who are willing to chase that content are a very small minority.
This gets made back by September.
95% of people who use reddit use the official app or website, and don't notice a single thing except the occasional stray John Oliver meme.
Not enough hobby communities left.
Honestly, this is "danger to the people" territory. He needs to be deposed.
How long until it is possible to get an AI GF? Depending on how real-feeling you want it to be, 10 years or so I'd suspect. But, if you want something that feels warm-blooded, that's gonna need heating. And if it moves, to curl around you like for sleeping or something, that's gonna be a cost, unless you wanna hear metal clanking.
It'll be very expensive (>$3000) for the good ones, and this isn't even mentioning the fact that should one exist, the reckoning that has put ChatGPT into limbo will come for this as well. People already complain about sex dolls, how they allow men to "act out and normalize perverted fantasies" and "make them more likely to rape women", and that will explode should a true woman-replacable companion come out. Hell, that could easily result in them being banned entirely, but almost certainly even more expensive.
It's not going to be the paradise you think it is, in all likelihood.
Honestly, this kind of thing should be done automatically by whatever app they sign up with. It's not something that the average person will really know how to choose.
Because it's not only number of users, it's also number of connections to other servers, how many federate with it. Most people don't wanna use a social network where they have to type exactly what they want in to search it every time. Never mind the different policies about posting and de-federation that can completely change how the network works for each user.
It's the disadvantage of decentralizion, and we've gotta band-aid it somehow.