Apollo is the only way I’ve used reddit for about 6 years.
I don’t want ads, and I don’t want my data serving as an asset to capitalist pigs!
the fediverse was/is quite a daunting platform. I’m here for the long run (hopefully), but I worry that it will either continue to be a relatively vacant space compared to other media, or crumble under the weight of unexpected operating costs.
To anyone who has been here for quite some time, I ask you: what are some useful tricks to make the most out of the service?
the fediverse was/is quite a daunting platform. I’m here for the long run (hopefully), but I worry that it will either continue to be a relatively vacant space compared to other media, or crumble under the weight of unexpected operating costs.
As a veteran of Usenet/Alternet, the Fediverse feels nostalgically like home in a way many social media platforms failed to capture since then, at least for me. I think it has legs this time, with specialized “galaxies” catering to different media habits and preferences. You have imagos of other platforms for long- and short-form discussion, video, images and mixed-media chat here. The Fedipact even seems to be a good start towards limiting the influence of Big Tech and their playbook to Embrace, Extend and Extinguish. Well… this time™.
I also worry about it collapsing, but more from under its own weight of balkanization: ever more fragmented splinters of the same communities all isolated from one another through defederation and strife. Maybe that’s an unavoidable end game for diversity in an ecosystem, or maybe it will scale this time without corporate interest driving engagement through controversy and rage?
We’ll see. Nothing is forever, and something different usually comes along when you need it.
Anyway, I’m here for the same reasons as you and many others. It’ll be a good thing we build here, if we can keep it.
Ha! Effnet Dalnet Undernet and Newnet represent! I was a Wolf on a certain room with certain eggdrop bots that did certain caching of info interesting to others :)
Same reason as everyone else, I reckon.
Apollo is the only way I’ve used reddit for about 6 years.
I don’t want ads, and I don’t want my data serving as an asset to capitalist pigs!
the fediverse was/is quite a daunting platform. I’m here for the long run (hopefully), but I worry that it will either continue to be a relatively vacant space compared to other media, or crumble under the weight of unexpected operating costs.
To anyone who has been here for quite some time, I ask you: what are some useful tricks to make the most out of the service?
As a veteran of Usenet/Alternet, the Fediverse feels nostalgically like home in a way many social media platforms failed to capture since then, at least for me. I think it has legs this time, with specialized “galaxies” catering to different media habits and preferences. You have imagos of other platforms for long- and short-form discussion, video, images and mixed-media chat here. The Fedipact even seems to be a good start towards limiting the influence of Big Tech and their playbook to Embrace, Extend and Extinguish. Well… this time™.
I also worry about it collapsing, but more from under its own weight of balkanization: ever more fragmented splinters of the same communities all isolated from one another through defederation and strife. Maybe that’s an unavoidable end game for diversity in an ecosystem, or maybe it will scale this time without corporate interest driving engagement through controversy and rage?
We’ll see. Nothing is forever, and something different usually comes along when you need it.
Anyway, I’m here for the same reasons as you and many others. It’ll be a good thing we build here, if we can keep it.
Ha! Effnet Dalnet Undernet and Newnet represent! I was a Wolf on a certain room with certain eggdrop bots that did certain caching of info interesting to others :)