An era of the internet is ending, and we’re watching it happen practically in real time. Twitter has been on a steep and seemingly inexorable decline for, well, years, but especially since Elon Musk bought the company last fall and made a mess of the place. Reddit has spent the last couple of months self-immolating in similar ways, alienating its developers and users and hoping it can survive by sticking its head in the sand until the battle’s over. (I thought for a while that Reddit would eventually be the last good place left, but… nope.) TikTok remains ascendent — and looks ever more likely to be banned in some meaningful way. Instagram has turned into an entertainment platform; nobody’s on Facebook anymore…
Forums, the fediverse, your own website, and perhaps most controversially of all, outside.
Forums as a response to leaving Reddit feels odd to me despite subreddits basically being forums. I guess without a way to aggregate separate forums into one app it loses the appeal that Reddit had for me.
Here’s hoping lemmy takes off.
Yeah, that’s the killer. Reddit was great because I could join a hundred communities and see all of them in one place. Sounds like we need a common forum aggregator of some sort.
Or Lemmy. Liking it so far.
Same. Only thing I’m missing so far is some of my favorite communities like r/onepunchman
I used to rely on it for notification of English translations of new chapters
Same, as well as several other anime communities. There is a OPM community here but so far it’s just a bot reposting Reddit posts with no other engagement.
More people need to bring up migrating to lemmy on those subreddits.
Are you unwilling to just look at that sub on a browser every now and then?
A lot of people here deleted their Reddit accounts when they left.
And the upvoting allowed good stuff from any topic to percolate up. I don’t know too much but the barriers between instances may mean some good content from lesser sources may not be seen or the supporters remain fragmented.
But the latter was also true of Reddit. Good information from smaller subreddits still remained unseen, because of upvoting.
Binary voting isn’t a perfect system, but so far it’s proven to work well enough.
If a better mechanism proves itself in the future I imagine Lemmy will adapt to it over time.
Outside was the first place to be enshittified. I crave third-place, but it hasn’t really existed for decades.
I just finished the Behind the Bastards podcast on Vagrancy. the destruction of the third place and destroying the ability to be anywhere for free without being hassled by the law has changed a part of America that was great. The freedom to exist is becoming elusive. The freedom to find common space with like minded people, that’s becoming hard to find too. I hope this place helps.
Even in third places like public parks or libraries, in America it’s mostly taboo to talk to strangers so it makes meeting people really difficult. Behind the Bastards is fantastic
It has been a lot of indoors time here in Ontario thanks to wildfire smog!
Well could y’all keep it in ontario because we’ve been getting your smog down in Minnesota now too.
Joking of course. Stay safe up there.
Should’ve installed giant fans along the border!
Build the wall (of fans)!
Outside? You jest 😏
And down in Connecticut, too. I want to go hiking but the air’s not been conducive to it.
I’ll start using outside once there is a way to block the sun.
…What do you mean sunblock already exists?
scoffs inside
The outside? But it burns… 😫
Is there an outside uh what do you call it here? Sublemmy? Lemmlette? Lemming?
Well, It’s the verge.
Outside?
How dare you!