this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
916 points (98.5% liked)

Technology

59282 readers
4157 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 143 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Good! Hope to see the same stories about Reddit and other major social media platforms that have taken steps to prioritize profit over the community.

The users are your golden apple. Abuse them, the apple turns sour.

[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know if it's just me, but I'm barely using reddit/twitter and now I spend most of my online time on Lemmy/Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Same here but i'm afraid we're not really in the majority.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We never will - we live in the TikTok generation

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ugh don't remind me.. i get your point but i still wish for the Fediverse to become more accessible

btw there is a Tiktok clone for the fediverse called Goldfish, although i haven't tried it lol

also, nice username

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Its entirely possible tiktok will be banned by the feds here in the US sooner or later which will most likely nuke a large chunk of anglosphere content. So we may see a shift away from it sooner or later.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

reminds me of the new reddit video player. ew.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's fine. The user base doesn't need to be in the nine or ten figures to have a community that has decent activity. Even with the thousands activity has been impressive, and that's with all this fragmentation across instances too.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fragmentation doesn't really matter though, as we can all read and participate in the same threads :)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep hi programing.dev instance!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hello lemmy.monster! Now that's the coolest instance name I've come across.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah? Well, try this on for size

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm feeling this is more on Meta having excelent timing with Threads unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Rather than excellent timing, I would bet that Meta saw the writing on the wall the moment Twitter started doing cuestionable things under Elon. I don’t think they would’ve launched Threads to compete against pre-Elon Twitter.

Also, albeit small in overall users, there’s been a constant exodus of users ever since Elon took over, so they are trying to capitalize on that.

No social network dies over night, but with Threads racing to become the mainstream text-based social media, Twitter will be slowly becoming irrelevant, until it dies.

Edit: Grammar

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I was curious about this. Turns out meta started talking about a Twitter competitor app in November, and started developing it in January.

Threads is a direct response to Musk buying Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

We too are part of the majority. This isnt about quantity but, quality. x

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It doesn't take much to panic these idiots. Even a 10% drop means someone has to answer for it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

+1 to this. I've had way more insightful conversations on the Fediverse—with less followers/recognition/brand—than on any centralized platform.

Love the discourse. Makes me think, allows me to learn, consider new perspectives, etc.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I thought the proverb was: cook a golden goose and you’ll eat for a day. Teach the golden goose to lay eggs and you’ll eat for a lifetime.

Gold is edible btw. Or at least inedible and non-toxic. It passes through without chemically reacting.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Give a man a fire, you’ll keep him warm for a night. Light a man on fire, you’ll keep him warm for the rest of his life.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Proverbial fish: am I a joke to you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mine was just made up on the fly. Been playing Zelda Tears of the Kingdom lately and had to round up some golden apples for something, lol