John

I tend to agree. I simply don’t like the short form content. I never did. When twitter launched, I didn’t understand it, and I still don’t. It doesn’t facilitate conversation whatsoever. It’s just shitposting and one-liners and toxicity. We really lost something special when we moved from forums to shorter and shorter content platforms.

“Better” means extracting as much data and value from users as possible to appease the Capitalist machine. What users want or need is irrelevant.

bsky is just another VC-funded corpo platform. The initial wave of Libs who moved over gave it some gas, but ultimately, it’s just another toxic, bland platform like all the others.

I love this

Golden age for sure. It was the wild West but so fucking fun. Every web page was creative and unique. Every community felt special. Now we’re all just funneled into these prefab “experiences” on these billionaire owned corpo platforms. It’s so dystopian.

I had my first account in 2006 I believe. By even 2010 Reddit was becoming kind of shit.

Honestly, I don’t want to blame reddit entirely. The entirety of the internet has gotten progressively worse and worse and worse over the past 20 years. At this point I’m ready to nuke the whole experiment.

You won’t hear it from the users here obviously, because of self-righteous anti-capitalist views that drove them here in the first place. And I’m not saying they are wrong or it’s a bad thing, but now you’ve got the furry/band kid table from the high school lunch room helping you form your political opinion and consume your time with AWFUL anime memes.

I’m a “self-righteous” anti-capitalist, but I’m not a furry or band geek.

That and the confusing system for platforms/instances will drive away everyday users who are used to an easy sign up

I’ll never really understand this critique of lemmy/fediverse. It’s not that hard. You just, uhh, pick one. If you don’t like it, just pick another.

If reddit fails, another capitalist will swoop in and take their place.

I’m not sure about that. Most people prefer the twitter-like platform, short-form content. Reddit style is a dying model imo. It’s not even that useful anymore, as everything is hidden away in Megathreads.

But yea, I doubt it will ever be mainstream. I’m fine with that though. Nothing I do is very mainstream. I’m just hipster like that I guess.

It’s like most of the fediverse… it sucks because there’s basically zero content/discoverability

I really only liked Leviathan Wakes since it was basically a sci-fi hardboiled detective story. I couldn’t get through the other books

Less than 24 hours if I remember.

I would argue, based on my perception of people who use and abuse those platforms, as well as data to suggest and confirm the above descriptors, that yes it is so wrong lol

I mean, you’re free to eat mcdonalds all you want, but let’s not pretend it’s a healthy choice in any way you measure it

People don’t want an addicting, toxic, alienating, depressing, billionaire-owned platform.

They want a addicting, toxic, alienating, depressing, non-billionaire-owned platform … Apparently.

I was on matapacos for a year. It just felt … dead. I moved to mastodon.social and I feel fine there as an ML.

I felt the same about lemmygrad. I’d rather have a little bit more popular instance than finding one that specifically caters to my tendency. Overall the fediverse is still lefty af.

So are you for or against mass surveillance veiled as “child safety”?

It was one of the first to make voice chat really really easy for gamers. Yes vent and ts existed before, but discord made it soooo easy and had integrated irc-style chat

We’ve been trying to tell people this.

Tiktok was THE platform for pro-gaza content and solidarity. Leaks from Congress proves this. It’s a shell of what it once was now that the US oligarchs are in control of it and have turned it into their right wing spyware platform.

Blocked for unironically using the word ‘tankie’.

…and it will conveniently fail spectacularly in Congress while trump claims that he’s helping the working class.

Yeah, people could donate directly, but some people decided to buy NFTs instead, and they wouldn’t have spent the money otherwise.

These arguments always make me smirk. Yes, of course I could use the slow, expensive, and exploitative financial rails that currently exist. But it’s fucking fun to buy NFTs. And easy. It’s as simple as that. I enjoy collecting these art pieces. I don’t give a flying fuck of a shit if it’s not actually “owning” it by some armchair lawyer’s abstract definition of “owning”. I support cool creators, the image appears in my wallet, I get perks associated with the token sometimes, and I have some prints of the art on my wall. I don’t care, like, not even a little bit, if I actually “own” it or not from a legal contract point of view, which is just a social layer anyways. I verifiably possess it, and that’s enough me.

Seriously, what is your endgame here?

They just really really really hate NFTs/crypto for some reason. I can’t imagine ever getting so worked up about a technology like people do today about crypto. I want to support an artist so apparently I need to have a PhD in contract and IP law in order to do so.