Twitter’s dying, Reddit’s changing, everything else is entertainment – and there’s nowhere left to hang out.
Twitter isn’t dying. The users and content is still there. The people going to Mastodon are the niche group of techies. Mastodon isn’t for your casual or average twitter user.
I think news and ads ruined social media today. I do miss the days of MySpace and people used to log on , hangout and message each other. You used to to connect with your friends online. Today, social media isn’t really used like that anymore.
Lemmy and kbin, find a community and stick with it or join a bunch. If you really don’t want to use discord for a hangout then there’s revolt and guilded for voip clients. You can also try mastodon and matrix, or really a combo of things.
I’m on discord but not for the sociability so much. However, there are some hyper specific subjects that get served up there. Personally, I find it very chaotic.
Discord is pretty similar to IRC 25 years ago: just a constant stream of conversations and you’re SOOL if you miss anything.
IRC… Now that’s a protocol I’ve not thought about in a long time
The one thing Discord has over IRC is logging. If someone could develop an IRCv# with constant channel logging and a history like Discord, I would be there immediately.
Back in the day my mirc client logged as long as I was online. Had logs for certain channels that went back 7 years at one point, but sadly lost those logs in a HDD meltdown.
I think I still have irc logs somewhere. I can probably safely delete them now.
This writer has some of the worst takes, I wouldn’t trust him. He’s probably my least-liked Verge writer.
What don’t you like about this particular article?
I’ve been watching the Vergecast podcast lately, and David’s take on a lot of this stuff is kind of wishy washy. I definitely think Alex Cranz and Nilay Patel have a better pulse on things.
Yea, really do think Nilay’s the one that keeps The Verge ticking. As long as he’s the head editor, the site will do well.
Did that author actually call BS part of the fediverse?
He’s right. It’s not ready for the masses/ those who aren’t technologically inclined. Afaik ddos protection pretty much breaks federation which is a problem in of itself.
Seems to be a lot of work to be done still
