Exactly. It was dramatized and way more entertaining than reality but the premise was based on very realistic scenarios.

That works too.

The only thing I want to read about her is that she’s decided to exit politics and live a private life. Thats it.

Wildly disagree.

You’ll have to pry my deep minimal organic afrotech from my cold dead hands.

I’ve never heard the term sealioning. Is it really a thing?

I don’t think it is, but if you have any evidence to prove it, I’m listening.

Their lighting app is a steaming pile of shit as well.

Word.

The average person doesn’t seek shit out. They wait until it’s fed to them and then may occasionally decide to participate out of fomo.

What really surprised me is that some of the communities I enjoyed pretty much universally carried on as if nothing happened. Maybe I’m weird, but I can’t support the bullshit they pulled. Thankful for the alternative and hope to see it flourish.

I’m not saying we need to blow up and get inundated with the masses, but sometimes it takes an event to kick things up a notch or two. Ideally a positive event, but something noteworthy to get people’s attention.

I don’t visit that site which shall not be named anymore, but I never visited it for memes or politics etc or because I had any particular affinity for the platform. I went there for the niche forums it had and if they exist here, they are empty.

I’m optimistic and I think we’ll have that event.

I do the same because there isn’t a single community that I care about that isn’t silent if it even exists. Pretty damn boring.

Anchor happened because Sapporo bought them.

Almost every single time.

I have a couple of important exceptions but I dare not mention them by name lest they be bought and ruined tomorrow.

Progress is forward, not backward.

I’m in the same boat, but rather than just going back to Reddit for those communities, I’ve opted to lose those communities, conversations and information entirely. I will not support their platform.

And I resent Reddit for that in a major way. Fuck them.

We did it Reddit!

/s

I guess I beat reddit then.

Plenty of friendly faces round these parts. Perhaps not quite as prolific though.

Today is a good day.

Yes! You made it over here!

This makes me happy.

That’s disgusting.

I feel like relying on the algorithms completely misses the human elements.

If I need an answer to something, I want my top results to be short and sweet. If I want a documentary or dj set, I don’t want a 3-10 minute version.

Agree completely. It just makes it all sound much more complicated than it is in practice. I’m used to the fediverse now and my eyes glazed over reading all that.

Another issue I have with the article is that he doesn’t even touch on third-party apps, which are abundant and pretty damn robust considering how new they are. The fact that much of Reddit’s self immolation was directly due to their treatment of third-party apps. At least worth a paragraph in my opinion.

Otherwise, nice write up.

1. These people have to deal with the public. People suck, so burnout happens pretty quickly.

2. Most people don’t want to do that job so your criteria for acceptance is relatively low. See post office or other public-facing gov work.

Edit: Huge shoutout to the woman at the DMV the last time I had to go who was the nicest person I’ve ever interacted with in any situatiin as a customer, not just at the DMV.