Reddit was the bandaid that let people actually find anything on search engines and now it's getting gutted for the same reason search engines were. I think the fediverse's complete aversion to advertising and business in general is going to be what insulates them from whatever the hell is happening to commercial social media
The subs for games like Street Fighter, the sub for fight sticks, the kind of semi-niche gaming communities that snowballed because of Reddit's ubiquity
I agree in theory, lemmy becoming a capable scroll-when-bored service in general is gonna be the thing that increases the user base and retention. But hosting videos is dummy expensive and the fediverse is idealogically opposed to the advertising that would pay for that.
Offloading videos to YouTube or something similar and embedding them would be just fine for me, I like the idea of videos being on YouTube instead of being kind of orphaned in that liminal, unsearchable twilight zone of Social Media Video Hosting anyway
I'm normier than the listed demographics and find the Fediverse and it's associated jargon to be inline with 4 dimensional crochet in terms of ease of use
Reddit was the bandaid that let people actually find anything on search engines and now it's getting gutted for the same reason search engines were. I think the fediverse's complete aversion to advertising and business in general is going to be what insulates them from whatever the hell is happening to commercial social media