Same. I’ve been on Reddit for almost 12 years and for so long now, every time I post or comment I go through a several-minute-long phase of “Ugh no one needs to hear from my stupid arse on this topic” and “Jesus Christ what a stupid ass comment…” Twitter I’ve been on years also but I barely use because it was going down the shitter long before Space Karen got his hands on it.
Been here in the Fediverse on Mastodon and Kbin for a few weeks now and it’s like going from gas station sushi that may be fresh that day to a high end sushi shop with a great omakase. Reddit still has some subs that, in my own realm of interests, haven’t picked up yet here in the Fediverse, but even just over the last 3 weeks the changes and increase in content has been very noticeable.
What I look forward to the most is when different interest groups start federating their own instances, like startrek.website is doing already. It takes time for these communities to grow, but I’m sure that in time decentralization is going to do wonders for them. :)
I’ve been commenting on (fediverse twitter equivalent) mastodon posts on kbin, with my kbin account, because mastodon is also federated with kbin.
Sure, the fediverse is fragmented, but it’s also far more connected.
TIL there’s someone working on federating wordpress with mastodon. That means we’ll soon be able to ‘boost’(retweet) a wordpress article on The Rules of Acquisition on mastodon with a kbin account and have lemmy users comment on it with a Quark gif they found on pixelfed(instagram equivalent) or a video from peertube (youtube equivalent).
Honestly, it feels a bit like we’ve been robbed all these years, commenting on screenshots of tweets you can’t easily copy paste or snapchat videos that barely load in the janky reddit videoplayer. That and switching between 5 different messenger apps, because these greedy cunts refuse to allow you to send a message from insta to whatsapp, because it might mean you spend 5 seconds less looking at ragebait content surrounded by ads.
Totally agree, especially with your last paragraph. It feels like we’re going back to when the internet was full of possibilities and felt open. I’m excited about that!
Same. I’ve been on Reddit for almost 12 years and for so long now, every time I post or comment I go through a several-minute-long phase of “Ugh no one needs to hear from my stupid arse on this topic” and “Jesus Christ what a stupid ass comment…” Twitter I’ve been on years also but I barely use because it was going down the shitter long before Space Karen got his hands on it.
Been here in the Fediverse on Mastodon and Kbin for a few weeks now and it’s like going from gas station sushi that may be fresh that day to a high end sushi shop with a great omakase. Reddit still has some subs that, in my own realm of interests, haven’t picked up yet here in the Fediverse, but even just over the last 3 weeks the changes and increase in content has been very noticeable.
What I look forward to the most is when different interest groups start federating their own instances, like startrek.website is doing already. It takes time for these communities to grow, but I’m sure that in time decentralization is going to do wonders for them. :)
I’ve been commenting on (fediverse twitter equivalent) mastodon posts on kbin, with my kbin account, because mastodon is also federated with kbin.
Sure, the fediverse is fragmented, but it’s also far more connected.
TIL there’s someone working on federating wordpress with mastodon. That means we’ll soon be able to ‘boost’(retweet) a wordpress article on The Rules of Acquisition on mastodon with a kbin account and have lemmy users comment on it with a Quark gif they found on pixelfed(instagram equivalent) or a video from peertube (youtube equivalent).
Honestly, it feels a bit like we’ve been robbed all these years, commenting on screenshots of tweets you can’t easily copy paste or snapchat videos that barely load in the janky reddit videoplayer. That and switching between 5 different messenger apps, because these greedy cunts refuse to allow you to send a message from insta to whatsapp, because it might mean you spend 5 seconds less looking at ragebait content surrounded by ads.
Totally agree, especially with your last paragraph. It feels like we’re going back to when the internet was full of possibilities and felt open. I’m excited about that!