This pretty much sums up the last couple days. Thankfully we have Beehaw and Mastodon.
Been using the fediverse since the 1st of June, don’t miss reddit at all. As a matter of fact, it’s made me realize just how plagued reddit had become with bots and ads and just terrible communities of hate and perversion. I was on reddit for like 13 or 14 years and since it was a slow process I didn’t realize how awful a lot of the site had become. So glad to have left.
I wish I could say the same honestly. I mean, I don’t really miss browsing Reddit, but I miss some of the smaller communities that haven’t made their way over here (or are so tiny here that there’s no discussion), and I hate how many of my Google queries point me to Reddit links because I refuse to open them on my phone
Can’t wait for Beehaw to have 7 or so golden age years before we drop this place. But it’s gonna be a great time in between.
Same. There were a lot more nich subs I was on, but I’ve honestly been there so long, everything feels like a repost. At least here, everything is novel. I’m going to be excited in about a year or so when Lemmy hits its stride.
It really is remarkable how two giants of the industry lost so much so quickly.
I’m hoping Bluesky does join the fediverse just so I don’t have to jump between apps. Lemmy has been great, but people don’t comment as much. I miss that
I won’t touch anything with Dorsey’s name attached. Yuck.
Bluesky is not to be trusted. They have no interest in joining the fediverse and are doing everything they can to establish an alternative that puts them on the center of the at protocol, so they can become a middleman in all communications and they will try to profit using a crypto angle.
@argo_yamato I’m curious how well interactions from Mastodon to Beehaw work, as I think that the opportunities for a unified ID across instances and “instance types” is a huge strength of the fediverse.
Twitter and Reddit, it’s the same story. Asshat on top who only thinks “bad people took OUR data” (and most importantly they took it for FREE). Data that users provided for free, as part of their conversations, data analysis, writing, sharing tips and tricks, informing of events, attention whoring, bragging, whatever reason they had to put it out there. Users content. Made by users for users in the first place. I mean… made for CEOs pleasure, obviously.
Sure it’s probably stated somewhere in book-long EULA, that everything you post becomes property of the site, yet still… Great thinking for the future proofing those sites. This valuable data can go to hell when there won’t be people providing them in the first place. I sincerely hope both Reddit and Twitter dies 'cause of this, although I doubt it will happen :-(
