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submitted 1 year ago by ijeff@lemdro.id to c/reddit@lemmy.world

An era of the internet is ending, and we’re watching it happen practically in real time. Twitter has been on a steep and seemingly inexorable decline for, well, years, but especially since Elon Musk bought the company last fall and made a mess of the place. Reddit has spent the last couple of months self-immolating in similar ways, alienating its developers and users and hoping it can survive by sticking its head in the sand until the battle’s over. (I thought for a while that Reddit would eventually be the last good place left, but… nope.) TikTok remains ascendent — and looks ever more likely to be banned in some meaningful way. Instagram has turned into an entertainment platform; nobody’s on Facebook anymore....

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[-] sarsaparilyptus@lemmy.fmhy.ml 136 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Forums, the fediverse, your own website, and perhaps most controversially of all, outside.

[-] craberium@sh.itjust.works 64 points 1 year ago

Forums as a response to leaving Reddit feels odd to me despite subreddits basically being forums. I guess without a way to aggregate separate forums into one app it loses the appeal that Reddit had for me.

Here's hoping lemmy takes off.

[-] SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's the killer. Reddit was great because I could join a hundred communities and see all of them in one place. Sounds like we need a common forum aggregator of some sort.

Or Lemmy. Liking it so far.

[-] craberium@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Same. Only thing I'm missing so far is some of my favorite communities like r/onepunchman

I used to rely on it for notification of English translations of new chapters

[-] cornbread@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Same, as well as several other anime communities. There is a OPM community here but so far it’s just a bot reposting Reddit posts with no other engagement.

More people need to bring up migrating to lemmy on those subreddits.

[-] aang_sym@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Are you unwilling to just look at that sub on a browser every now and then?

[-] cornbread@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

A lot of people here deleted their Reddit accounts when they left.

[-] Foggyfroggy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

And the upvoting allowed good stuff from any topic to percolate up. I don’t know too much but the barriers between instances may mean some good content from lesser sources may not be seen or the supporters remain fragmented.

[-] AsimovsRobot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

But the latter was also true of Reddit. Good information from smaller subreddits still remained unseen, because of upvoting.

[-] TechnoBabble@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Binary voting isn't a perfect system, but so far it's proven to work well enough.

If a better mechanism proves itself in the future I imagine Lemmy will adapt to it over time.

[-] ijeff@lemdro.id 17 points 1 year ago

It has been a lot of indoors time here in Ontario thanks to wildfire smog!

[-] Fosheze@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Well could y'all keep it in ontario because we've been getting your smog down in Minnesota now too.

Joking of course. Stay safe up there.

[-] ijeff@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

Should've installed giant fans along the border!

Build the wall (of fans)!

[-] Lurra@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Outside? You jest 😏

[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

And down in Connecticut, too. I want to go hiking but the air's not been conducive to it.

[-] llamasama@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Outside was the first place to be enshittified. I crave third-place, but it hasn't really existed for decades.

I just finished the Behind the Bastards podcast on Vagrancy. the destruction of the third place and destroying the ability to be anywhere for free without being hassled by the law has changed a part of America that was great. The freedom to exist is becoming elusive. The freedom to find common space with like minded people, that's becoming hard to find too. I hope this place helps.

[-] Hazzardis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even in third places like public parks or libraries, in America it’s mostly taboo to talk to strangers so it makes meeting people really difficult. Behind the Bastards is fantastic

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll start using outside once there is a way to block the sun.

...What do you mean sunblock already exists?

[-] 70ms@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The outside? But it burns... 😫

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 year ago

Outside?

How dare you!

[-] gunslingerfry@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Is there an outside uh what do you call it here? Sublemmy? Lemmlette? Lemming?

[-] reclipse@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

Well, It's the verge.

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