The one true constant for me is 4chan 😅
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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Same fucking journey as you. Reddit was a good run for 10 years, let's see if Lemmy can work.
What do we do if it doesn't? Just crawl back and apologize?
Nah. If Lemmy/Fediverse doesn't work out, there will be others. This has all happened before..
If the fediverse idea doesn't work out and it's yet another company the cycle is bound to continue.
A big chance is in front of us to break the cycle!
Oh, I agree wholeheartedly. Decentralization is the way to go and I hope Lemmy succeeds. This particular implementation may or may not work out long term, but the underlying idea is sound.
We'll get it. Might take a couple tries, but we'll get it.
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Do you think this is the end of your "journey"?
Where does somethingawful fit in
It's funny to read this article about the death of Digg again:
In reality, Digg changed their business model and pretended that they didn’t. That is something that is unacceptable with communities and won’t be forgotten. Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian hit the nail on the head in an open letter to (now former) Digg CEO – Kevin Rose:
“You chose to grow with venture capital and you’ve no doubt (I hope) taken some money off the table in your Series C round. I say this because this new version of digg reeks of VC meddling. It’s cobbling together features from more popular sites and departing from the core of digg, which was to “give the power back to the people.”
https://searchengineland.com/digg-v4-how-to-successfully-kill-a-community-50450>
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BBS > various forums > /. & Metafilter & fark (no digg), > Reddit & twitter > the fediverse!
Put BBS discussion boards, FidoNet groups, and Usenet out front and drop Fark for my path. Along with a variety of standalone forums and random stuff that never went anywhere, of course :) (yes, I'm old!)
Usenet was one of my startng point too... Funny to think it was (in a way) decentralized.
Edit: still is of course. Usenet is still around.
I'd need to shoehorn the Something Awful forums in there somewhere between Fark and Digg.
I went back to Fark for a bit, it's surprisingly unchanged. That's good and bad, it's so linear and most of the comments are snarky/clever but maybe not particularly insightful. Reddit had a nice mix, a lot of funny predictable answers "And my axe!" but then also expert posters that would write 2 intelligent pages on a subject.
expert posters that would write 2 intelligent pages on a subject.
Basically the main thing I'm looking for in my replacement tbh.
The problem is when the funny answers bury the experts post that you are looking to.