It is. But it think the fediverse is the next evolution of whatever is going to replace social media as we know it. So while I think this place is part of the journey, and not necessarily the destination, I think there's also some important things here that are getting glossed over by just saying it's new reddit. Like the control of it, and how it's connected and whatever else.

Take reddit for instance, like I've had some pretty big blowouts with a specific reddit power mod before, and he's the mod of what seems like a billion subs. Buddy's just a zeeb, but ive lost my patience with him, and I've had usernames be totally banned. It hinders your ability to maneuver through the entire platform, like you can do new usernames or whatever, but if they start IP blocking you, or my total all time favourite, the "shadow ban" (what a gross thing), it gets harder to maneuver around.

Whereas here, that same power mod could show up, but as fast as he can ban me, I can join other instances and basically be back in 20 minutes. It enacts freedom of speech, and allows people to circumvent suppression. Sometimes thats not such a great thing, but I'd rather be offended by something, than enable someones voice to be suppressed only entirely because one absolute skid stain loser doesn't agree with them.

I have no problem with people talking shit on AI, my comment is about the fact people are reacting to what they think the subject of the headline is as opposed to what is written in the article.

FYI "are you lost" is a pretty rude way to start a conversation. I wasn't trying to hurt you