Khavanon
Hah, somehow I thought I did post it there. Welp, there's some things I still need to learn.
It sounds like we're in good hands.
It wasn't even about protesting anything for me. 90% of my Reddit time was spent on my phone, and I used RIF to read it. I've seen it through their app and I just didn't see myself ever using it. As far as I'm concerned they played themselves, not because of disaffecting some users, but in forcing apathy toward their product for other bystanders.
But I think back on all my time using the internet over the years, and I realize that the last several years or so have been stagnant overall. I remember joining BBS's, and later AOL IMs and chats and IRC and ICQ. Geocities, Newgrounds, DeviantArt, Slashdot, LastFM, Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Spotify, Twitter, Reddit, and probably a bunch of other places that I'm forgetting. There were new things always coming, and then the '10s came around and it all seemed to slow down; that excitement for something new. There was nothing else for me to join and experience.
And then it seemed like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit, and probably some others started to wear out their users. I was never a Digg person. Never used Tumblr, or Instagram, or Snapchat, or WhatsApp. Never got into Discord or Twitch. I think the powers on the internet went reaching out for a kind of person that wasn't me. So maybe all of that was exciting for some people, but it wasn't for me. It was stagnating, and I haven't really put that into words until now.
Then last weekend came and I learned about the Fediverse. I'd heard of Mastodon, and I'd even heard of Lemmy, but I didn't really look too hard into it. I wasn't looking to help start something. There are a million places trying to start something all the time. What I didn't understand is that all of that was related to one another, and that it was a lot bigger than I ever expected in that every social media space I'd ever experienced had a user-created version of itself in the Fediverse, and that it was all connected to one another.
Reddit is a place for people to go to, but the people create its content. The people find the links and the stories to share, and the art, and the photos, and the glimpses into their personal lives. Reddit was its people, and I think the company made a mistake trying to control too much of it. I know they looked at us as the product. I'm not interested in discussing what may or may not have been within their rights to do because I don't really consider my leaving them to be a choice. They just made me grow tired of it, and I can't help that. I'm not obligated to like or stick through everything they do.
So here I am, and I'm feeling that lost wonder that I once experienced discovering new things on the internet. The stagnation is fading. I think the Fediverse is the way things are heading, and I find that exciting. I suddenly feel younger. And even if it never has the reach of all the established social media companies, I'm finding the more intimate communities to be refreshing. And who knows what this new Age of AI will do to our experiences. Reddit made me realize this, and they probably shouldn't have, or at the very least they should have been a part of it.
Welcome to the NBA Championship Club, Denver.
I'm not sure yet. It might be a feature that still needs to be added. And while we're at it, it may as well highlight new comments on non-game threads. Let's get that feature for free, I say.
Are they shopping Zion or Ingram for that pick?
I'm using Jerboa on Android. Not sure what they have for iPhone.
We'll have to get right into talking about the draft if the Finals ends tonight.
Will we crown a new NBA champion the same day this community gets started?
Hah, I guess we're all learning. I guess new comments take a few minutes to register with the thread.