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I don't want to make fun of them, I just have no desire to socialize with them. I frankly think it's weirder to be a man in his 40's who wants to spend their digital day with 17 year olds.
If you consider yourself a teacher, its no big deal. Socrates might have been talking to adults, but students were watching.
The article is supposed to be about the "downfall of social networks" but somehow manages to ignore the fact that Facebook, Instagram and Tik Tok are all still thriving with no end in sight. It's basically trying to say that because Reddit is struggling with profitability and Twitter is struggling with being bought by a petty jackass, social networks are in precipitous decline? But I barely think of Reddit or Twitter…
Insta and tiktok are not searchable so they are useless as archives.
Nerds screaming for decades: The lock-in effect of the big companies will bite you in the ass. Normies: But it's so easy and i can't be bothered to understand what i am doing anyway. Go away ...The inevitable happens... Normies: Where are we all supposed to go now? Rinse and Repeat.
An alternative reading:
Nerds screaming for decades: why make things easy for normies, they just need to git good. Poor UX is a feature, not a bug, and it doesn't matter anyway.
Normies: lol ok sure.
P.S. To add to the horse that is already beaten to death many times over: "just set up a cron job to rsync your files to a remote linux storage server, who needs a cloud storage solution with simple and easy to understand UX anyway, anyone can (and cares to) do it, just git good".
Since Apollo shut down ive been checking out lemmy.world (via wefwef.app[1], a web client app thats almost a carbon copy clone of Apollo) and I guess im slowly getting how the whole thing works, and into this whole fediverse thing. Whilst there it not much content right now, you can experience first hand how the old communities you had on Reddit are being recreated there. It’s kind of fascinating to watch and you als…
Sometimes I think about Gravatar. Like it was such a simple concept but made sense and saw huge adoption. It seems like the main bottleneck all new platforms face is getting people to sign up. That’s why OAuth is so popular. It makes me wonder if Gravatar had not been acquired and had expanded into being a service where the whole point is that you have an account that you can expand and withdrawal from various servic…
That’s what I hoped the fediverse was promising to users: one account, cross-instance.
Federation makes sense for Mastodon, since you boost (retweet) other people and reply to them, but Reddit communities are not linked like that. The only way they're connected is by hyperlinking, an aggregated front page, consistent UX or API, and shared user accounts. All of which can be done with entirely independent servers and OpenID/OAuth
This article was a culture shock. Did people actually used to believe places like Reddit or Twitter were "healthy good places" to spend your time? I thought we were all on the same page for once, in recognizing that while social networks have some benefits for the most part they are deeply unhealthy places due to how every one of them is built around ad views or subscriptions. This is partially why I don't really car…
If you never curated your reddit experience, I could see how you might have this attitude.
I won't deny that /r/popular and /r/all are rage inducing dumpster fires. But if you create an account and join subreddits, just going to https://www.reddit.com/ takes you to a selection just from those subreddits. And there are a large number of wholesome, nurturing, even useful subreddits.
In some respects, it is like Usenet used to be.
> never all that beneficial.
Google would disagree, after the recent blackouts. There's a lot of useful information going on in various subreddits - to the point that some posts on specific topics compete for stack answers in search rankings! Hell, I've found more useful Common Lisp resources in the Lisp subreddits than I ever found on HN, and better solutions to (some) problems than on stack.
Nerds screaming for decades: The lock-in effect of the big companies will bite you in the ass. Normies: But it's so easy and i can't be bothered to understand what i am doing anyway. Go away ...The inevitable happens... Normies: Where are we all supposed to go now? Rinse and Repeat.
> Normies: But it's so easy and i can't be bothered to understand what i am doing anyway. Go away An alternative reading: Nerds screaming for decades: why make things easy for normies, they just need to git good. Poor UX is a feature, not a bug, and it doesn't matter anyway. Normies: lol ok sure. P.S. To add to the horse that is already beaten to death many times over: "just set up a cron job to rsync your files to a…
> The Free shit they make for us must be trivial to use and for free and i wont give them any money to develop it to solve the problem. I'd rather get exploited by megacorps for free and complain that they treat me like cattle
hope they like to grass they get fed
I've been enjoying tildes.net a lot, especially after the Reddit debacle. It's more like HN in that there are much fewer jokes and pun threads than reddit.
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Facebook instagram and tiktok, as you say, do not have the same searchable level of useful information in super niche subjects, which turns out to be the crucial difference afaic, the rest is noise.
While you are right, I believe searchability is not a criterion for earning to be be called a "social network".