Reddit temporarily bans r/WhitePeopleTwitter after Elon Musk claimed it had ‘broken the law’
Reddit has temporarily banned the subreddit r/WhitePeopleTwitter citing a "prevalence of violent content."
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The sad thing is that even with all these scandals, MAU/DAU growth in the threadiverse is flat.
We've seen an uptick in sign-ups. It's nothing like Pixelfed's day in the sun but it is noticeable but may only be obvious in the numbers over the longer term.
This isn't the only sub being shut down (obvious ones like r/iselondeadyet are also gone) and we may be days away from Rexxit 2.0. It's something I'm planning for with the other Admins on our instance.
Good to hear!
Yes, I do think (hope?) that will be another migration wave. Hopefully one that can kickstart organic double digit YoY MAU growth as well as getting total MAUs over 100K.
Good news! Reddit is starting to ban porn so there might be a user wave on its way!
Give it some time. It took a while for people to "get" reddit, it will take some time for people to understand federated social media to the point that they feel comfortable using it.
eh, quality > quantity. As long as we can support and improve the platforms we're good.
I agree. That's why I've largely moved off reddit and deleted my twitter accounts.
I would even go as far as saying that the architecture of the fediverse with multiple instances, multiple platforms (Lemmy vs. Piefed vs. Mbin) and multiple frontends has the potential to offer more innovation, a better user experience and better content/communities.
But that being said user growth (via a competitive federated model) is necessary.
It would enable expanded coverage of niche topics of interests and other languages. Potentially more funding for development and administration.
But the most important point is that it would allow the global community to take back digital social interaction from the criminal oligarchs, the marketers and shills and undermine nation state digital propaganda and subversion efforts.
I am talking in abstract, aspirational terms, but still, from my perspective this is all part of getting quality content/discussions.