Sweet I’ll give it a shot, thanks.

Damn, really? I’m a fan of the ui. Is voyager an app now? Not into web based platforms.

Does anyone else use Memmy?

I ask because the links to new communities never work for me. Curious if it’s the same for others.

Exactly. It was dramatized and way more entertaining than reality but the premise was based on very realistic scenarios.

Wildly disagree.

You’ll have to pry my deep minimal organic afrotech from my cold dead hands.

That’s a fugly house.

Looks great, where are you?

Their lighting app is a steaming pile of shit as well.

Word.

The average person doesn’t seek shit out. They wait until it’s fed to them and then may occasionally decide to participate out of fomo.

What really surprised me is that some of the communities I enjoyed pretty much universally carried on as if nothing happened. Maybe I’m weird, but I can’t support the bullshit they pulled. Thankful for the alternative and hope to see it flourish.

I’m not saying we need to blow up and get inundated with the masses, but sometimes it takes an event to kick things up a notch or two. Ideally a positive event, but something noteworthy to get people’s attention.

I don’t visit that site which shall not be named anymore, but I never visited it for memes or politics etc or because I had any particular affinity for the platform. I went there for the niche forums it had and if they exist here, they are empty.

I’m optimistic and I think we’ll have that event.

Now I learn this, 2 months after tossing that platform in the bin.

After years of wondering where the hell the breaking news went…

I do the same because there isn’t a single community that I care about that isn’t silent if it even exists. Pretty damn boring.

That’s disgusting.

I feel like relying on the algorithms completely misses the human elements.

If I need an answer to something, I want my top results to be short and sweet. If I want a documentary or dj set, I don’t want a 3-10 minute version.

Agree completely. It just makes it all sound much more complicated than it is in practice. I’m used to the fediverse now and my eyes glazed over reading all that.

Another issue I have with the article is that he doesn’t even touch on third-party apps, which are abundant and pretty damn robust considering how new they are. The fact that much of Reddit’s self immolation was directly due to their treatment of third-party apps. At least worth a paragraph in my opinion.

Otherwise, nice write up.

I’d do backflips if I opened a box and got that.

Good on ya for never using the app. Only reason I did was because I was an Alien Blue guy. They gave free premium to all AB users for a long time so I never saw the ads and didn’t know any differently.

When that expired I def got punched in the face with subversive ads and it was bullshit. That was when I switched to Apollo.

These ads I’m seeing now are the modern equivalent of popups. It’s Reddit’s fuck you to me which I’ve returned in kind.

Totally hear you and maybe that is the case. It was just jarring seeing an ad the size of my phone screen every time I went into a sub to leave.

No thanks. Good riddance.

1. These people have to deal with the public. People suck, so burnout happens pretty quickly.

2. Most people don’t want to do that job so your criteria for acceptance is relatively low. See post office or other public-facing gov work.

Edit: Huge shoutout to the woman at the DMV the last time I had to go who was the nicest person I’ve ever interacted with in any situatiin as a customer, not just at the DMV.

Tidal has been doing that for a while. The hi-fi option is/was double the price of the standard.

Formula: 2 away + 3 pollutions = counts