This pretty much sums up the last couple days. Thankfully we have Beehaw and Mastodon.
Been using the fediverse since the 1st of June, don’t miss reddit at all. As a matter of fact, it’s made me realize just how plagued reddit had become with bots and ads and just terrible communities of hate and perversion. I was on reddit for like 13 or 14 years and since it was a slow process I didn’t realize how awful a lot of the site had become. So glad to have left.
I wish I could say the same honestly. I mean, I don’t really miss browsing Reddit, but I miss some of the smaller communities that haven’t made their way over here (or are so tiny here that there’s no discussion), and I hate how many of my Google queries point me to Reddit links because I refuse to open them on my phone
Can’t wait for Beehaw to have 7 or so golden age years before we drop this place. But it’s gonna be a great time in between.
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Same. There were a lot more nich subs I was on, but I’ve honestly been there so long, everything feels like a repost. At least here, everything is novel. I’m going to be excited in about a year or so when Lemmy hits its stride.
Same, but I also have realized how often I find good answers to technical questions on Reddit … It’s just that now I notice it much more.
It really is remarkable how two giants of the industry lost so much so quickly.
I’m hoping Bluesky does join the fediverse just so I don’t have to jump between apps. Lemmy has been great, but people don’t comment as much. I miss that
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Could you elaborate? Genuinely curious as to why
the birdsite was a plague even before musk came along. lots of people found the culture that developed, and the sort of behavior the platform seemed to encourage, pretty anti-social all on its own. dorsey, as the dude who was ostensibly steering that ship, bears some responsibility as to how twitter shook out. more generally though, trusting people that were deeply involved in the rise of web 2.0 and the surveillance economy that came with it is kinda impossible for a lot of folks. twitter is spyware. reddit is spyware. google is spyware. all of it is infested with ads and exploitation and nfts. dorsey is a capitalist, and it seems naive to many to assume that the next thing he makes is not going to be just as poisoned by the incentives of a profit motive as twitter was. dorsey still stands to make a lot of money off of whatever he builds, and the most profitable thing about modern social media platforms is selling peoples personal data to advertising companies.
in other words, the social media empires that built the modern web are dogshit not because the people building them made a mistake, or failed to consider the consequences of their influence, but because they wanted it to be built this way to maximize shareholder profits. any internet infrastructure built by the same people, or funded by venture capitalists, therefore, is not to be trusted. we’ve seen and are currently seeing what happens to platforms run for a profit motive eventually, and what sort of bullshit the people running those platforms can get up to if they choose to, and continuing to grant these people control over our digital lives is foolish, especially when alternatives now exist.
I feel like the quality of comments has been higher here. So far anyway 🤣
Bluesky is not to be trusted. They have no interest in joining the fediverse and are doing everything they can to establish an alternative that puts them on the center of the at protocol, so they can become a middleman in all communications and they will try to profit using a crypto angle.
Regarding not commenting as much. Interesting I tend to comment a lot more then I post and when I post it is usually a question I need help with. Sometimes I feel a little bad about not adding posts that much. Only reason I mention this is it makes me feel a little better about my patterns… i.e. more commenting. Thanks.
True. Hopefully not just Bluesky but all user-generated platforms are built on the fediverse. It’s just gonna take a lot of time to catch on. The fediverse isnt easy to use for a lot of the non-techies. But getting better!
It’s definitely getting better! The hardest part is finding a local instance that suits you, I think.
It’s a shame BlueSky made its own protocol instead of ActivityPub.
Twitter and Reddit, it’s the same story. Asshat on top who only thinks “bad people took OUR data” (and most importantly they took it for FREE). Data that users provided for free, as part of their conversations, data analysis, writing, sharing tips and tricks, informing of events, attention whoring, bragging, whatever reason they had to put it out there. Users content. Made by users for users in the first place. I mean… made for CEOs pleasure, obviously.
Sure it’s probably stated somewhere in book-long EULA, that everything you post becomes property of the site, yet still… Great thinking for the future proofing those sites. This valuable data can go to hell when there won’t be people providing them in the first place. I sincerely hope both Reddit and Twitter dies 'cause of this, although I doubt it will happen :-(
I’ve never heard the term anti-social media, but having now been on Mastodon for nine months, I don’t really need Twitter anymore. I expect in time Lemmy will fill the same Reddit-shaped void.
@argo_yamato I’m curious how well interactions from Mastodon to Beehaw work, as I think that the opportunities for a unified ID across instances and “instance types” is a huge strength of the fediverse.
