Tumblr was already in a bad place and was further cannibalized by instagram (and reddit).

Reddit still has no meaningful alternatives. Yes, we like lemmy. Most people don’t and won’t. They want corporate social media. Just look at how long it took people to leave twitter. And they only did once BlueSky had open sign ups.

My money is on a bunch of “protest” posts and subreddits to track this and people mostly just sit around and not care. With a lot saying “I don’t need porn on reddit, I have the internet” while completely ignoring things like trans erasure.

This is being done by trump and musk.

Microsoft just own the company where this is being discussed because the people actually doing the work are treating it like any other software project.

That is the beautiful part of it. It is a fundamental brain block in like 99.999999% of “The Children”.

In an old life I had to deal with this. Maybe one in every hundred interns we had realized how similar matlab and fortran were. The rest just immediately locked down because it wasn’t python or, in rare cases, C++.

The greatest and most vital of government secrets are safe. Because no chance any of those kids understand fortran or cobol.

They’ll just delete it rather than try to understand or modify it. But small victories.