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It feels like reddit from ten years ago, and has the critical mass to make it interesting to open and browse. I think it's a success.

I only use reddit now on revanced rif to visit a couple of communities that are too small to be worth replicating here yet

If threads scoops up all the people who turned twitter and reddit into celebrity gossip meme ghettos and keeps them in the shallow end of the pool then everybody wins

Yes, that's how I know it has legs.

From usenet to reddit, the internet spaces that began by attracting a critical mass of internet/tech experts and enthusiasts are always the ones that end up going the distance.

You don't want to rush this place going mainstream, I promise. Enjoy it while it lasts.

Growth for growths sake.

Not just at a platform level but at a community level too. Around 6 or 7 years ago I started to really notice people talking about growing their subreddits, making changes and tools designed to increase the subscriber count.

For what? There's nothing to gain.

The main subreddit I modded finally became impossible to moderate for quality when, despite our lack of "growth strategy", the influx of new users became too much for the communitys culture to persist and it slowly turned into a lowest-common-denominator topic-flavoured meme ghetto. And from the outside I saw many of my favourite subreddits fall to the same scenario.

So I would say, we should avoid or rethink the idea of growing lemmy for its own sake. Eternal September will come eventually, lets not rush it

Just donate if you want to support your server.

Awards are special actions reserved for people who pay, that don't improve the platform anyway. It's enshittification.

Complain about things.

Unless it's something you can keep lighthearted, and maybe make a point with in a funny way. But just bitterly bitching about something in your life is probably the worst (normal) thing you can do. That or treat service staff badly.

No because I didn't choose this public forum for its privacy or security

On this subject, my personal definition for millennial is someone in the age bracket where they had to teach themselves how to use windows as a kid

If you're happy to pay whatever it costs to host then there's no other disadvantage to this.

The only thing I can think of is if you somehow end up at odds with an admin of a big instance and they defederate your instance. Or perhaps in the future major instances decide to only federate with instances of a certain size, for some as of now unpredictable reason

Only if you used it in a very mainstream, surface level way

Sure, but it's still remarkable and it does change the tenor of the overall site.

At one point a couple of years ago I peeked at /all and I'm gonna say 85% of the top posts were from subreddits that were basically themed variations of "hey look at this asshole"

That shit definitely filters into the culture, and you see it in comment threads all the time where sometimes idea of a worthwhile contribution is just tagging iamverysmart or whatever

The whole site just primed itself into getting annoyed, pissed off, or outraged about anything at the drop of a hat

Rotating gifs all over every homepage

Who does that select for though.

Those with the most time? The most money? The most aggressive approach?
Competition doesn't tend to produce holistic quality; only efficiency.

Growth for growths sake doesn't help anybody

Agreed, the data concern is a red herring. Might as well do a "I hereby revoke consent for Facebook to take my data..." post for all the good it will do you.

Block Threads because of the potential impact it can have on the quality of experience here. That's a good enough reason. Nobody joined a lemmy so that they could keep in touch with people who use social media to gossip about brands and influencers.

We've also already seen Beehaw defederate from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works due to the sheer volume of users creating issues around moderation

Troubling but understandable. Beehaw is basically fediverse tumblr, they need to prioritise their own safety.

It really highlights the other main issue though in that people really want a new alternative to work so are obsessed with growth at all costs. But maximising the influx of new users is going to have negative effects on quality, culture, and community.

A bit of friction to onboarding, and a slow steady growth that allows a community to form is what's going to set this up for success

The winner of the cube game got to be the "god" of Peters next game which was an MMO-like thing. Only after he won his prize the studio kind of forgot about it and just moved on so he never really won anything

There's a really good piece about it but I don't recommend reading it, it's just frustrating and predictablely shitty behaviour

ActivityPub or whatever BlueSky calls theirs could end up being the perfect protocols for truly Public online spaces, managed by governments in the same sense that they manage public meatspace

Notepad++ , nano if that counts lol

Connect also seems the most rif-like, so it's a clear win for me

That would be huge

I went to check my lemmy on my browser and it was just jacked full of meme pages amd subreddit clones that I'd blocked on my mobile client

For example, I'm not sure how a new user is supposed to distinguish between: Games@sh.itjust.works and Games@lemmy.world This seems like a potentially worse version of reddit's games vs gaming vs truegaming.

It's a matter of time in my opinion. Out of the major federated instances, if (for example, but this applies to any topic) Games@a and Games@b are too similar, one will end up becoming the 'winner'. Others will either develop their own identities or slowly fade.

Eventually it'll just be a known thing, Games@a is a little more loose and jokey while Games@b is a little more organised and on-topic, and if you're 14 and want to get in long-winded insult exchanges about the best CoD then there's also Games@c

I don't think it's in its final form.

It's obvious that brands and influencers were offered the chance to be pre-verified and, while I haven't seen direct evidence myself, the word is that they could get some kind of FB/insta promotional discounts by being there to post on day 0 with a witty canned line about how great it was to be on threads

So when the app opened to the masses, they don't have to follow anybody or wait for their friends before it had "value". They open it up and there are a bunch of brands and "personalites" making it looking like it's already alive and the place to be

The other stuff will probably come later... although there's the chance that they're going after tiktoks model of "we know what you want"

I joined because a company who ran a creative product I used ended up using it as their primary comms channel. So a scene and community formed there, because it was the only way to stay up to date.

I ended up following quite a few people from that community, and I never use the algorithm feed - all I see is posts about games, art, music etc made by the community and it's where I share or promote my own games and other work.

I never see any other twitter garbage or drama in the course of average use. I have seen the shit thats out there, and as fucking abysmal as it is, it's no better or worse than default/popular reddit, which I equally avoid.

I remember Armagetron always getting fired up at LANs when I was at uni, 2005ish

I'm enjoying Connect, it's very similar to rif which I've used for a long time.

Give The Drummer Some from Ultramagnetic MCS, and that whole album really.

He's a great developer and a shitty producer. When he's in charge of his own projects there's nobody holding him accountable and it just spirals into madness and then halfway through when all the hard and fun work of really designing the game is complete, and all that's left is the boring business of production and finishing the damn thing, he just ADHDs off into the distance chasing the next cool idea/design challenge

Somehow he's able to keep funding that arrangement, so it hasn't changed.

For those wondering, Connect is basically the layout of rif, so if you came from that, connect is right for you

I need loud music so that I can think