I just don’t see how this actually benefits the average user compared to a centralized system. To me it’s a bit like trying to apply Blockchain technology to everything regardless of how appropriate it may be. I’m sure plenty here disagree with me and that’s fine.

Yes, that probably right. But it also goes against one of the supposed benefits of the Fediverse. Which makes the whole distributed system thing a bit pointless.

I dislike the idea of multiple communities for the same topic spread across multiple instances. Sure, you can subscribe to multiple communities, but that’s just extra overhead. I’m hopeful reddit backs down after the protest (as unlikely as it may be) and will probably go back to using it regardless. Social media is about content, and unless the is a dramatic shift away from reddit being the content hub that it currently is, nothing else will be as useful.

Usually, yes, but I’m sure they’ll be tracking traffic more than usual during the protest to see actual impact, so any traffic is counterproductive to the protest.