Yep. The quality of discourse, which had already been trending down for years, fell off a fucking cliff when they started actively chasing most people worth a damn off the site (w/ API, VPN policy, etc).
We also mean dying as a place where you can meet and have interesting conversations that even when heated invite you into learning and thinking differently.
Lack of limitless quantity of voices does little inherently to degrade the quality of conversation, though of lack of diversity certainly does.
I have met singular people on the fediverse that I have learned more from and that contain more powerful words than entire swaths of corporate social media. It isn’t because normies suck it is that there is no oxygen in the room in those places like there is here and it leads a culture of constant self betrayal, and a feeling of ever present glare.
When we say dying, we mean dying as a useful and usable platform for us, the former reddit userbase. The Reddit Corporation is a different thing.
Yep. The quality of discourse, which had already been trending down for years, fell off a fucking cliff when they started actively chasing most people worth a damn off the site (w/ API, VPN policy, etc).
We also mean dying as a place where you can meet and have interesting conversations that even when heated invite you into learning and thinking differently.
Lack of limitless quantity of voices does little inherently to degrade the quality of conversation, though of lack of diversity certainly does.
I have met singular people on the fediverse that I have learned more from and that contain more powerful words than entire swaths of corporate social media. It isn’t because normies suck it is that there is no oxygen in the room in those places like there is here and it leads a culture of constant self betrayal, and a feeling of ever present glare.