Twitter’s dying, Reddit’s changing, everything else is entertainment – and there’s nowhere left to hang out.
Lemmy and kbin, find a community and stick with it or join a bunch. If you really don’t want to use discord for a hangout then there’s revolt and guilded for voip clients. You can also try mastodon and matrix, or really a combo of things.
I’m on discord but not for the sociability so much. However, there are some hyper specific subjects that get served up there. Personally, I find it very chaotic.
Discord is pretty similar to IRC 25 years ago: just a constant stream of conversations and you’re SOOL if you miss anything.
IRC… Now that’s a protocol I’ve not thought about in a long time
The one thing Discord has over IRC is logging. If someone could develop an IRCv# with constant channel logging and a history like Discord, I would be there immediately.
Back in the day my mirc client logged as long as I was online. Had logs for certain channels that went back 7 years at one point, but sadly lost those logs in a HDD meltdown.
I think I still have irc logs somewhere. I can probably safely delete them now.
Twitter isn’t dying. The users and content is still there. The people going to Mastodon are the niche group of techies. Mastodon isn’t for your casual or average twitter user.
I think news and ads ruined social media today. I do miss the days of MySpace and people used to log on , hangout and message each other. You used to to connect with your friends online. Today, social media isn’t really used like that anymore.
Outside.
Outside. We are supposed to go outside
Did that author actually call BS part of the fediverse?
I don’t think he called bullshit as much as he thought it has potential but not ready yet. Lol! I love the fediverse. Let everyone else find the next best thing that will, once again, get ruined.
haha what you are missing and what I’m laughing about one comment over is that BS is the initialism for BlueSky. The parent comment is saying, “Did the author actually call BlueSky part of the fediverse”
this is fucking hilarious and I will never stop laughing about it
Now I’m laughing.
He’s right. It’s not ready for the masses/ those who aren’t technologically inclined. Afaik ddos protection pretty much breaks federation which is a problem in of itself.
Seems to be a lot of work to be done still
Here’s a “radical” idea… hang out IRL…
Rip friendfeed
I thought this was an IT Crowd reference, but no.
So that got me jonesing for the actual IT Crowd reference, which is here if anyone like me is desperately thirsty (b/c advertising has no effect on us, ofc:-).
Did you see that ridiculous display last night!?
*ludicrous
This writer has some of the worst takes, I wouldn’t trust him. He’s probably my least-liked Verge writer.
What don’t you like about this particular article?
I mean, he’s anti- Twitter and Reddit, and pro- Kbin and Lemmy so his take isn’t that bad…
I think he underestimates the readiness of Kbin and Lemmy, though. Sure, they’re rough around the edges, they’re not full-featured reddit clones, but we can (mostly!) talk to one another and there’s a lot of excitement about being on the frontier, instead of just another pre-packaged marketing-focused software appliance. We’re doing OK, and we’ll only get better!
Even techies have issues deploying, maintaining and upgrading kbin and lemmy instances and even for those that work, the admins say they are held together by wishes, prayers and digital duct tape. From just the casual user’s perspective, the software is buggy, not intuitive, a lot of data gets lost in transit between instances and there’s a lot of downtime due to influx of new users (which is still a miniscule amount compared to what other social networks usually handle).
I don’t think he’s that far off when it comes to readiness. I want this to succeed but it’s not ready yet for the mainstream, maybe in another 6-12 months.
I’ve been watching the Vergecast podcast lately, and David’s take on a lot of this stuff is kind of wishy washy. I definitely think Alex Cranz and Nilay Patel have a better pulse on things.
Yea, really do think Nilay’s the one that keeps The Verge ticking. As long as he’s the head editor, the site will do well.
I don’t think those are strictly correct. There’s no way Brisbane has 250k subscribers. The population of the city is only about 2 million and the channel isn’t that active.