Phlogiston

this feels like the prisoners dilemma playing out on the front page

This makes sense — but if nobody knows it there is lots of room for confusion.

“Boost” seems more like “updoot” than “retweet“. Perhaps more importantly why would one retweet a comment? Rather than a post?

Idk if reddit will actually “die”

I think it depends on us users. If we can make a community work here in the federated space well enough to draw users then reddit might really go away.

But if they manage to kill off 3rd party devs, APIs and etc quickly before these alternatives are baked enough to work for their users and these existing federated tools aren’t good enough – then they’ll just maintain via the network effect.

clearly hexachrome has been hiding out in a little used corner of the internet and isn’t caught up with current memes. (I think i’m jealous of them)