How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?
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A bit of an effortpost :)
Please do crosspost in more fitting communities if you think of any
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A bit of an effortpost :)
Please do crosspost in more fitting communities if you think of any
Wow damn. It's bound to happen regardless of platform eh?
Not really. This is a result of people "forking" Reddit due to a real fork being dumb and impossible. Everyone brought the same site culture with them. Mastodon is cleanly divided between Eugene's hellmouth of Twitter liberals and evil anime libertarians who should all be legally executed for their very real crimes. That wasn't inevitable. This place seems tailor made for people with a functioning honor system. Internet points are an abomination. People need to inquire more seriously into what is grinding the gears with social media. Techno-libertarian idealism outlived its usefulness long ago. I certainly don't have any better solutions than ActivityPub and private frontends.
Good insight.
It only cost my sanity!
I had high hopes due to the defederated nature of the technology, but first thing that happened was that instances with different views started to defederate.. That wouldnt be so bad if not all content came from just one or two large instances, but since it does, the entire network is now depending on them to survive.
This is 100% caused by every website about Lemmy linking to Lemmy.world, so that's what users pick. It can be argued that there was very good intent behind this, giving users an instance with experienced admins to start their Lemmy adventures. But the downside of this is the very controlled, centralized nature of the Lemmy network now.
There are still alternatives to LW
This is a topic we regularly discuss on !fedigrow@lemm.ee
https://lemmy.today/post/9854494?scrollToComments=true
Feel free to join our discussions there
Thank you, subscribed to all of it.
This is very relevant to my interests!