"So where are we all supposed to go now?"
Important to understand that the word "we" in this article means chronically online tech journalists angry at Twitter.
So where are we all supposed to go now?
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#92back in the olden days we had a thing called a forum, they were much better
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#93Outside. There's even a nice blue ceiling (or, for British users, a nice grey ceiling)
sometimes the gray ceiling falls on you and it feels nice
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think FB is not thriving, and actually is suffering to attract new people. Insta and tiktok are not searchable so they are useless as archives.
FB is still adding new active users year-to-year and is up to around 3 BILLION monthly active users. Just because it's popular to imagine FB is in decline does not make it true.
Mm. Interesting. I highly doubt Facebook has that amount of users and still growing. No genz is there so that's that. I'm millennial and I don't know anyone using Facebook. Instagram is used mainly for business and sharing photos is going down since fb ruined. TikTok is currently growing without any any sign of slowing down.
Now, how many of those fb accounts are truly active? My parents have FB but they don't use it since all our photos, etc... Are being shared through chat. Are they part of the 3B mau?
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#96How about websites try cultivating their own audiences in the comments section and messageboards, which was the default until these sites decided that getting traffic from social was all that mattered? 10 years ago The Verge had a thriving comments section, with an audience that migrated from Engadget and Gizmodo. There was even a messageboard to discuss topics in more detail. It ended up getting closed. These days t…
A lot of sites have big comments sections with high quality answers, like the FT. But of course you are always posting at the behest of their mods and on some stories you cant post at all.
That's better than nothing. Hopefully it's better than the WSJ's, which appears to be restricted to subscribers yet is still pretty toxic.
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#97The 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…
And wishing Twitter dead is just the wishful thinking of the people who write for newspapers and outlets like the Verge, because they spent 24 hours a day on it and it catered to them. For people who aren't angry about politics, Twitter is just as appealing as it ever was (other than the transition pains.) Among people who are angry about politics, it became less appealing to people who think certain ideas should dis…
I guess we’ll see now with the 600 tweets limit unless you pay.
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#984chan
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#99I've been enjoying Metafilter again after many years, and also Tildes. There are well established forums for my interests that were always bigger than they were on reddit. I have some Tildes invites if anyone wants them.
I would love to have an invite! I love the feel of tildes.net; feels like the old internet. Email: myalias.quickstep124@silomails.com
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s what I hoped the fediverse was promising to users: one account, cross-instance.
And this is why IMO Lemmy is overcomplicating things. People are conflating single sign on (easy, relatively) with server-to-server federation (hard and resource intensive. Jumping straight into fairly deep waters of distributed systems) 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 h…
I'm building a new protocol that adds a centralized DAO server for essentially auth, and name reservations for different taxonomies or purposes like subreddits, usernames, tags, anything really you'd be able to create unique taxonomies that could be tied to your apps. I want essentially to allow federation but with a single archival source of truth. Just in beginning stages though.