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Reddit: 80% absolutely vacuous memes or self references. Gimme gimme dopamine I want more pls. 20% political news
Lemmy: Same but more like 50/50. Small percentage of very satisfying human or creative content like Reddit of old. Also every person is convinced they're right about everything and you're a moron for thinking different.
Mastodon: Everyone's a game developer or an artist, very high quality content but makes you feel useless in your life
Twitter: WTF why does Tucker Carlson live here now when did this happen
Bluesky: Lol
Meta: GREETINGS FEDIVERSE HUMANS. MAY I EXAMINE YOUR DATA FOR PURELY ETHICAL REASONS PLEASE
What's blue sky ?
Invite only (up until a few days ago) Twitter 2.0
I was super excited for Bluesky back in the day, and in the interim before I got my invite approved I had moved on to Mastodon and friends, and now I'd be very surprised if it goes anywhere. I made no attempt to make use of the invite code I eventually got.
I kind of did this with Tildes.
Yeah, it has all the same problems that (pre-Musk) Twitter did. Centralization was never the problem, turns out. IMO it's just the basic central premise that everyone is talking to everyone, all the time. When your brain does that, it's called a seizure.
Plus tons and tons of furries, which like... you do you, but it becomes a huge ongoing effort just to keep furry porn out of a lot of the feeds, if that's not your bag.
Yeah. Most of the success of a social network has nothing to do with "X software is better than Y software." Reddit's software wasn't really that good, ActivityPub is kind of a janky protocol; it's fine. The main success hinges on who's on the network and the quality of the interactions to be had there.
Literally this. Most social networks are just less-featured versions of Facebook.
Twitter was originally Facebook with no media posts and character limits. And kind of cool that you could SMS it, but hands down just worse software that ended up taking off.
Instagram was originally Facebook but images only. Then they added video. It's just less software, but also took off.
Snapchat was Facebook but you could only send pics/video and only directly to friends. And they just removed persistence so all your shit gets deleted. Literally just missing timelines and comments. Blatantly worse software. Popular as fuck, especially with zoomers.
Social media has never been about better software. Arguably Google+ had the best software in many ways (probably the most feature rich, but UI was objectively a problem), it's fucking dead. Social media seems to do better when it has worse software.
Or maybe, just as with creative endeavors in general, limitations do more to focus and define a social network than to bind it.
Twitter with fewer people.
Is it foss or decentraliased ?
Exactly