A few things I want to say:
Amazing job so far. Here's to the future of decentralized social media!
Sync in my opinion provides the most seamless, Reddit-like experience, so naturally, more people will gravitate towards that
There's a difference between liberal left (which is what a majority of rational, secular people belive in), honest far-left, which is about socialist economics, eat the rich, BLM/anti-racism, anti-cop, gender abolition, human rights, actual anti-colonialism etc. and the kind of "far-left" that is "anti-west", which isn't really about honestly discussing these issues, but rather about dividing people, being contrarian to established things that work and make sense, and trying to paint everyone who disagrees even a tiny bit as the scum of humanity. On the other hand, any defederation further enlarges the rift between communities and makes being informed on what others think more cumbersome. Also, they think Beehaw, a place that is supposed to be inclusive, is fascist? I am not sure how it is. It's mostly left and liberal, really.
The weird thing is that x.com sometimes loads into Twitter and sometimes doesn't, which shows that there's really no management in all of this.
I already replaced my search engine, my social media and my Reddit.
Do you want me to replace my email too, Google?
The thing I want to know is - are they going to try and block any mention of Fedi or Lemmy on the canvas?
There is an inherent problem with microblogging sites. They don't help you understand anything. All they do is give you small blips of information, text, memes, short videos, drawings, pictures. You can't state your full opinion and it is hard to be noticed or seen because most people don't bother getting into any topic in detail. On the other hand, social news plafrorms - like Lemmy and Kbin and even Reddit - encourage dialogue and discourage toxicity.
Microblogging has changed. Now, I much prefer talking about current events on a social news platform than on a microblogging platform. Right now microblogging sites are good for art or talking about general interests and things in your day-to-day life, maybe getting some news out of them (if the algorithm wants you to because algorithms suck when it comes to news, especially in a divided society such as this one), but not much more. Plus, the "balkanization" of microblogging with services like Tumblr, Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon makes it so that you divert attention to different things in different places, while things like the threadiverse can be a hub for pretty much everything because information doesn't flow as fast as on microblogging sites so you don't lose attention very quickly.
I understood the problems with attention span that plague Twitter long before the big switchover was even a thought, it's just that I didn't think of it too much back then.
Twitter is surviving because of its addicts. Now, it's likely to drop its userbase significantly. Plus, Musk restricting people who aren't logged in from seeing anything makes the website practically irrelevant, and if this is sustained, Twitter will die in a span of months, if not weeks.
It just says 502 Bad Gateway. I'm not even sure if the block is intentional on their part, or a server issue of some sort.
With the quick death of Twitter and the even quicker death of Reddit, we as a community are speedrunning the transition to federated social media. We only need good mobile UX and keeping the growth, and we're set. It feels like a post-apocalypse right now, and I am not sure how to feel about it.
this is a beginning of the end for reddit as we know it
IMO, Reddit kept the people who didn't care about third party apps or the things that made Reddit Reddit years ago, before it turned into generic social media. Everyone who did care, left. And that's not really a victory.