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do you think the fediverse could replace popular social media (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by Bicyclejohn@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

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At the moment the internet is flawed, do you think the fediverse is the solution?

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[-] Alkalyon@lemmy.ml 48 points 2 years ago

I expect good and insightful conversations to be moved here.

Reddit is about to become like twitter and facebook where it's ad-ridden, toxicity cesspool.

People will leave to keep having the actual forum experience and will eventually move here as it looks like a very good alternative.

[-] IniNew@kbin.social 25 points 2 years ago

Sometimes I feel like my reddit experience was so different from a lot of people's. I unsubbed from all the default subs and built a specific homepage for the things I found interesting. Unfortunately for me, that means the communities were (relatively speaking) smaller than the popular ones, but still large enough to have frequent engagement. Going to be hard to replicate that, I think.

[-] fruitywelsh@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

My approach as well, it took me a long time to realize why I got weird looks saying I browsed reddit at work. My page was opensource,computer, tech, stuff with some other hobbies.My friends was just porn lol

[-] realcaseyrollins@social.freetalklive.com 6 points 2 years ago

@Alkalyon @Bicyclejohn #Reddit was already toxic, but I guess now people will begin to recognize its toxicity.

[-] strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz 7 points 2 years ago

@realcaseyrollins
> Reddit was already toxic, but I guess now people will begin to recognize its toxicity

... just like Titter.

@Alkalyon @Bicyclejohn

[-] albinanigans@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Yup, that part.

We been knew about Twitter but for a lot of us, Musk taking the wheel was the push we needed to find greener, less toxic pastures.

[-] StoicLime@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Speaking of greener, less toxic pastures, what are you using as an alternative? Mastodon, Bluesky or something else?

[-] albinanigans@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

I went back to Mastodon. Had to move my account twice more to find an instance a) I really gelled with, b) took the safety of marginalized people seriously, and c) did not hesitate to pushback against the hateful stuff.

It's been pretty nice.

[-] strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz 2 points 2 years ago

@StoicLime
> what are you using as an alternative?

I never really used Titter. My account was just a sock puppet that echoed my posts from my Mastodon account. I'm posting this from Mastodon right now, but I also have a Friendica account, and I'm keen to check out CalcKey. All of these, like Lemmy, are part of the fediverse and interoperate with each other.

(sorry if that's obvious to you but it's not to everyone so I'm spelling it out)

@Bicyclejohn @Alkalyon @realcaseyrollins @albinanigans