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.
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
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.
I feel like the quality of comments has been higher here. So far anyway 🤣
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.