Sweet I’ll give it a shot, thanks.

Damn, really? I’m a fan of the ui. Is voyager an app now? Not into web based platforms.

Does anyone else use Memmy?

I ask because the links to new communities never work for me. Curious if it’s the same for others.

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

Wildly disagree.

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

That’s a fugly house.

So is it a bollard in front of painted asphalt? Textures are interesting.

Looks great, where are you?

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.

Now I learn this, 2 months after tossing that platform in the bin.

After years of wondering where the hell the breaking news went…

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.

Good writeup, but a few things I’m taking away from it.

1. I’ll say it again, fuck RedditCorp.

2. A recurring theme I’m seeing in these articles is the framing of it as a RedditCorp vs mods issue. I was just a user. Yes, the mods got screwed hard here, but so did any casual user who relied on well-designed apps to allow them to access and participate in the discussions they cared about without being clotheslined by an ad every 5 seconds. This is as insulting to the users as it is anyone else.

3. It’s been mentioned by a few others but why did they choose Discord? This article points out the flaws with it, all of which would be resolved by migrating to Lemmy/Fediverse. I’m not a user of Discord or Reddit, so I’m not tuned in to their reasoning.

4. Related, another article that gives no mention to the incredible growth that’s happening over here. Maybe that’s for the best, but a little exposure couldn’t hurt. I know all of my niche equivalents over here are silent.

5. Shoutout to Guy in the article, most of the things he said are 100% spot on for members of any passionate community. I hope more people who continue to use that one outdated site read this article and finally ask themselves, “Why the fuck am I still sticking around this place?”

We did it Reddit!

/s

I guess I beat reddit then.

I wonder if the people who either linger out of hope or don’t realize what is going on have been around the internet long enough to have seen this happen before.

Many of us have seen this happen over and over and over. There’s nothing surprising about it. Yes, your go-to favorite website will fail you.

Decentralization helps, but I can’t imagine shit won’t hit the fan at some point in the future.

It’s happening, I love it.