I'm glad that the Fediverse is thriving right now, I didn't know much about it a week ago, thanks Reddit I guess.
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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Same, I've always wanted something community-powered to take off and finally actually draw users away from the corporate owned garbage, but it never happened. Now that the corporate platforms all decided to shoot their feet in unison, we're finally seeing some adoption of more user-friendly platforms and I'm loving it.
Yeah, that's why I'm a fan of free software, it's a collaborative effort to create and improve software for the community, that doesn't treat it's users like a product to be exploited. It's a noble cause. Corps like to attract user making a "good" product and when big enough, they switch to predatorial tactics to squeeze dry their userbase.
100% agree. Free and open software is free because the developers are also the users, the goal is to collectively produce something that is as good as it can be for the user. Proprietary software is created by a company and targeted at users who are not the developers, the developers usually have little to no stake in the usefulness of the software, it's just a means to an end. That end is always money, so exploiting the user becomes the goal.
I love how this community is just so cordial.
@ada did you have to do anything special to make this cross-post work -- like are you following the lemmy community from this account or something like that? or can anybody just tag the community and it posts there?
@jdp23 So, with Lemmy specifically (I'm not sure about kbin yet, as I haven't tested it), you just tag the community, and it posts directly to the community.
The only real consideration is that lemmy expects a subject line, so if you're posting from software that doesn't use a subject line, it will use the first sentence of your post as the subject instead. Which is why my post began with a snappy single line sentence :)
@[email protected] @[email protected] Kbin is similar but it will create a microblog post instead of a thread.
@[email protected] @[email protected] One small note: kbin doesn’t support authorized fetch yet so if your instance requires that, it won’t process it. I just a did few quick tests between Calckey and kbin from an account that was following a magazine and also with a magazine that it wasn’t following. It created microblog posts as long as I had disabled Secure Fetch in Calckey.
So, I’ve been through a few of these tectonic plate shifts in my life on the internet, and I know that there will be others older than me with even more experience or alternate experiences along similar themes.
I am not even kind of an early adopter online. I tend to find something I’m comfortable with and stick with it for quite some time, and it takes a number of “throwing my hands up in disgust” events to get me to consider a change. From my own timeline of use, it was AOL as the “front page of the internet”, followed by 4chan for a very short while, followed by Digg, followed by reddit, and now it’s starting to feel like we’re on the brink of another plate shift. Is this something on that sort of scale? No idea. It would take someone with a far keener eye for these things to tell you for sure, but I can confidently say that if someone like me is here, then I’m certainly not the only one, and that means something’s up.
Make of all of that what you will, but it’s going to be increasingly interesting to see where this goes in both the short and the long term.
I'm the exact same way, and in all my time online this has seemed like the most likely event to topple Reddit. The exclusion of third party apps is the most tangible change to the average user, so unless Reddit can match Apollo or RiF in quality (or close enough for now), I think a lot of people are going to be leaving the platform on July 1st.
Time will tell though. I see a lot of talk about leaving Reddit but so far most of my subs haven't made an effort to migrate over. This could be the next "Voat migration" and just as easily fade away.