So Long, Twitter and Reddit
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So Long, Twitter and Reddit
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#2> start hunting for high quality blogs
I like this site for that: https://ooh.directory/
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#5"You're letting a bunch of people who aren't really that important to you, or qualified to do the job, be the content curators for you." This hits
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#6> Discord has been decent for a while. I suspect enshittification will commence soon, so we should be on the lookout for an alternative over the next five years.
Discord's fine for what it is, but it's also a fundamentally different thing than social media or forums or a support-site. Projects that try to funnel everything onto Discord are (a) losing anyone who thinks joining an 800 person chatroom doesn't sound fun, and (b) always seem to wind up being very irritable at people who join and immediately ask all 800 people their common question, despite Discord being extremely poorly searchable.
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I saw nothing about either of those people in that post. He also trashed Mastadon for the same reasons as X. I think maybe you’re reading something into the post that’s not there.
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#8The more problematic thing is that Reddit took a read-only group, assigned a random, completely unknown new moderator, and re-opened it.
The maw must be fed.
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#9> Discord has been decent for a while. I suspect enshittification will commence soon, so we should be on the lookout for an alternative over the next five years. Discord's fine for what it is, but it's also a fundamentally different thing than social media or forums or a support-site. Projects that try to funnel everything onto Discord are (a) losing anyone who thinks joining an 800 person chatroom doesn't sound fun,…
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#10> Discord has been decent for a while. I suspect enshittification will commence soon, so we should be on the lookout for an alternative over the next five years.
For folks who want to move their communities to a publicly accessible Matrix server, I'm building Shpong [0]. Heavy WIP obviously.
The trend of moving to closed-off spaces is bad for the open web. I'm hoping we're able to reverse it, despite everyone wanting to close things down due to AI panic.