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So Long, Twitter and Reddit

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Re: So Long, Twitter and Reddit

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Post by vxNsr »

hardwaresofton wrote: post #51
raincole wrote: post #35

I don't know why people just can't use plain old forums. I've got a lot help from KVR (a forum for music making) since I started learning DAW. It works fine. If authentication is a problem then just let users login with their discord/twitter/reddit accounts? Is it the lacking of "one-click setup" forum services?

They did, Discourse is basically just a plain old forum -- with a somewhat newer coat of paint. > Is it the lacking of "one-click setup" forum services? I'm a bit biased (since I run a tiny managed service provider) -- would you create a forum if it had one click setup? Services like Discourse and NodeBB do offer this kind of service, so it seems like the option is there.

I find discourse difficult and confusing to use. Everything seems mixed up together, so it’s never clear what the topic is supposed to be, and scrolling is a nightmare. I actually kinda like pagination as it means I can know where a post basically is even if I didn’t save it, with discourse, if I don’t glance at the date and “write” it to memory there is no way to easily find an old reply without just continually scrolling and hoping I don’t miss it.

Re: So Long, Twitter and Reddit

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Post by markstos »

raincole wrote: post #35

I don't know why people just can't use plain old forums. I've got a lot help from KVR (a forum for music making) since I started learning DAW. It works fine. If authentication is a problem then just let users login with their discord/twitter/reddit accounts? Is it the lacking of "one-click setup" forum services?

People can use forums, and do. But in a lot of cases the community is already established somewhere and if you want to join the community, you go there. And good luck getting any sizable community to switch platforms.

Re: So Long, Twitter and Reddit

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Post by timbit42 »

progfix wrote: post #95
jakecopp wrote: post #70

> I have a Mastodon account, but I don't love it, for the same reasons I didn't like Twitter. In addition, I think that way of consuming content is generally like watching mainstream TV or listening to radio with ads. 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. Isn't that the opposite of Mastodon? The _default_ Mastodon home fe…

You can also follow hashtags which for me is much more interesting than following people.

Yes, I'm following dozens of hashtags and only 3 people. This gives me a very high ratio of interesting content to uninteresting content.

Re: So Long, Twitter and Reddit

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Post by harshalizee »

tmpX7dMeXU wrote: post #37
reactordev wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Discord is not a social platform. It's a chatroom for gamers, to share memes and voice chat while they play . It's not a base for documentation. It's not a platform for your next product (other than a bot..) launch. It's poorly designed for searching, for knowledge, for connecting. It's 2020s version of ICQ.

I find it utterly insufferable. I, a very technically capable person, really struggle with using Discord. I can’t help but feel that people that misuse Discord in this way are doing it from a place from extreme ignorance and hubris. It is so blatantly not intended or appropriate for what a bunch of people use it for. The only thing it has going for it is that the person setting up the community knows how to use it. I…

You really hit the nail on the head. I'm technically capable but discord really gives me the vibes of corp slack channels where I don't care to participate in, because they're not paying me to.

I still can't seem to get how this is a real social media outlet.

Re: So Long, Twitter and Reddit

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Post by gabereiser »

harshalizee wrote: post #126
tmpX7dMeXU wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find it utterly insufferable. I, a very technically capable person, really struggle with using Discord. I can’t help but feel that people that misuse Discord in this way are doing it from a place from extreme ignorance and hubris. It is so blatantly not intended or appropriate for what a bunch of people use it for. The only thing it has going for it is that the person setting up the community knows how to use it. I…

You really hit the nail on the head. I'm technically capable but discord really gives me the vibes of corp slack channels where I don't care to participate in, because they're not paying me to. I still can't seem to get how this is a real social media outlet.

You can’t seem to get it because of that bias. GenY and GenZ haven’t had that experience (yet) so to them, it’s the bees knees, or lit, or slay, or whatever they are using to express their approval.

Re: So Long, Twitter and Reddit

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Post by mdaniel »

deprecative wrote: post #73
callroomlamp wrote: post #31

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Lemmy experience is quite satisfying. Took a moment to get used to the fediverse especially with multiple duplicate communities. Yet find myself doomscrolling much less and being more satisfied than Reddit. Still a small community though…

I cannot understand why anyone would want to deal with fediverse anything. I don't want thirty places with five to twenty people that post the same few things. I want one with hundreds or thousands or more. If I want a cozy social area I'd just as soon start a group text chat. It's just the worst of every experience.

OT1H, I hear you and agree it is frustrating and very bad UX. OTOH, there is no rug-pull outcome because the board of anything decided to rug-pull API access to AcitvityPub endpoints

That said, I think ActivityPub has only solved the distributed posting identity problem, and has not yet solved the "lemmy.ml shuts down" problem, in that such a thing will not take my ActivityPub identity with it, but will take a lot of the high subscriber communities with it, forcing them to relocate yet again

Re: So Long, Twitter and Reddit

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Post by nickthegreek »

disambiguation wrote: post #77

Anything less than face-to-face socializing is a degraded social experience. Arguing over healthier forms of social media is like arguing over the healthiest fast food chain. It's just not good for you.

I'll let me friends who moved all over the states know that I cannot continue this degrading social experience. They should find time to regularly fly here and be with me.
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