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'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives (www.techradar.com)
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[–] zensanto@ttrpg.network 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I dunno about netflix, but at least the reddit debacle diverted a lot of users to the fediverse.

If we get a similar exodus from discord to matrix, that would work wonders for spreading the fediverse to others. Most of them still haven't even heard of it.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A blip of users

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

I mean, do you want more people on the fediverse or not?

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Thats not my point though.

At the time reddit closed their API to third parties loads of idiots were saying it was the end of reddit.

In reality reddit just sanitised their user base.

[–] zensanto@ttrpg.network 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

In reality, reddit gave a userbase to a platform that previously had none.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au -4 points 4 days ago

... and yet, that's not what im talking about.

[–] TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If you call that sanitised...

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 3 points 3 days ago

Well they got rid of the users they didn't want so from their perspective, yeah.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago

They lowered the lowest common denominator by driving away the users that wouldn't tolerate their BS.