• @[email protected]
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    184 days ago

    The collapse of X should’ve been the movement to get rid of social media, not replace it with another identical platform

    • Fuck Yankies
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      253 days ago

      …he said on social media…

      Okay, so it’s a link aggregate, but still.

      Why everyone’s so happy about BlueSky and Threads though is what pisses me off, and it’s that’s they are in the safe arms of a corporate daddy.

      Submissive little shites.

      • @Zangoose
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        12 days ago

        Decentralized/OSS platforms >>> Multiple competing centralized platforms >>> One single centralized platform

        Bluesky and Threads are both bad but having more options than Twitter/X is still a step in the right direction, especially given the direction Musk is taking it in. As much as I like the fediverse (I won’t be using either Threads or BlueSky anytime soon), it still has a lot of problems surrounding ease of use. Lemmy, Mastodon, Misskey, etc. would benefit a lot from improving the signup process so that the average user doesn’t need to be overwhelmed with picking an instance and understanding how federation works.

      • @criticalthreshold
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        83 days ago

        My guess is most normal people just want to be where every other normal person is and to have comment moderation enforced.

      • @[email protected]
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        123 days ago

        You’re not wrong about Lemmy also being social media, but I view it as my methodone for Reddit. Long term I think I will get rid of Lemmy too.

        • Fuck Yankies
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          103 days ago

          I think giving it up is sort of a cop out. It’s like saying because all new movies suck, that you should stop watching films.

          The good thing about Mastodon I feel is that people are more sincere than what you’ll find here, or even on Threads.

          I also think Beehaw has a good idea by being strict. If you dislike the brainrot, remove the brainrot. Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.

        • foremanguy
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          23 days ago

          I already ask useful things on lemmy, find guides and read interessant articles, maybe Lemmy is not as bad as other socials

          • @[email protected]
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            33 days ago

            In all likelihood that experience will be temporary, in one of two ways. Either Lemmy becomes mainstream enough to enshittify beyond your tolerance, or Lemmy atrophies into obscurity and ceases being a platform with any benefit.

            Which will happen, and on what timescale it will happen? Who knows. But I wager one of those outcomes is inevitable before too long. The “chill, somewhat unknown but appreciably active platform” position is long-term an unstable one.

            Until then, we’re all just in time to bask in the warm glow of this little experiment for at least a little while.

    • @[email protected]
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      33 days ago

      Platforms like Twitter are incredibly useful for following public figures and journalists, your feed doesn’t have to be all brainrot. Having a similar platform that’s not in the hands of a billionaire freak is in the public interest.