The "federated" alternatives are such crap. It's so user-unfriendly and confusing, there is no way a normal person would be able to enjoy browsing crap like lemmy/kbin.

That's a plus for me. I'm nostalgic as hell for the era of the internet where the barrier to entry meant your peers needed half a clue to be there.

If the collapse of sites like reddit and twitter are what is needed for a return to smaller user-operated and user-owned sites to flourish, then so be it. I won't miss the memes.

Huh? I clicked on both of them and if I wasn't paying attention I'd have thought I was on reddit. What's the problem? Or are you saying starting your own shard or node or whatever it's called is confusing compared with creating an account on reddit? Because if so they're totally different levels of thing.

> It's so user-unfriendly and confusing

This viewpoint is confusing to me. Conceptually, it's no different than email, and we all get by just fine on it

The site doesn't have global outages every day, come on now.

If it doesn't it sure feel that way. Around 12am to 2am Japan time there will be a period of time where I simply cannot access Reddit.

That's likely to be a routing problem, related to your ISP or something in between. Reddit really is not down that much.

If it is because of that it sure isn't just me because Downdetector and RedditStatus also show blips in outage during those time.

Might be something unique to your own setup or location. Never noticed this myself in years.