It seems like due to the downfall of Twitter and Reddit, people will be moving to the Fediverse instead, and since there is not much here, people won’t be addicted to it anymore.
Additionally, it’s open-source and de-centralized as well, which omits censorship. What do you guys think?
people won’t be addicted to it anymore
Wishful thinking. I’m wasting more time on Lemmy then I ever did on Reddit/Facebook/Twitter/…
However, the biggest advantage to me is that I can filter out what I don’t want to see, not be forced to accept what is thrown at me or leav. (I did the latter on all) I now have the option to hide away from ‘normals’ again.
When you look at the world and see what is considered ‘normal’, who in their right mind would want to be like that?
I think the idea that our behavior is somehow related to our systems and not our demographics is the problem. I think the internet is going to change us, not the other way around.
People don’t have to like “better” things, and often they simply don’t. This is the flaw of laissez-faire, where we’re not perfectly rational actors.
Right now the average Fediverse user is an early-adopter type, usually techy. These people are often smarter than average, hence why they wind up in technical fields. Eventually they will not be the majority though, the avg intelligence/education in here will drop to the global avg. So will our behavior.
Spot on, this is the way it seems.
The advertisers, corporate shills, and bot providers are retooling to attack the fediverse.
It may feel like its 1999 again for a minute, but the $$ driven counter offensive will come.
TikTok and Threads still exist, though.
The changes that people hate at Twitter/meta/reddit? Those are just evidence of malignancy in society. Not sure there’s much to heal about the internet individually. It’s more systemic. Anyways before I grow a thicker beard and start writing a manifesto or something, just go out there get as big as you can and eat the richest person you see. That’s how you fix the problem.
The fediverse will fall under the same pressures that caused the censorship in other areas when it gets big enough.
Isn’t it de-centralized though?
We may understand that, but I don’t think that the groups that will want to censor will.
That’s why it will fail. One can just repost the same thing via a different instance, which the group that wants to censor them may not have control of.
Unlikely. Zuck can make another Facebook and millions will still flock to it thinking they’ve ‘escaped’ Facebook.
Spez can make a Reddit ‘successor’ and millions will still flock to it thinking they’ve ‘escaped’ Reddit.
The point is, we need to dethrone the root of the problem.
Another Facebook?
You mean Instagram?
I’m addicted to it :)
I’m going through some personal stuff and reading Lemmy helps take my mind off it, and due to the smallish size and lack of ads and other bullcrap it doesn’t repel me as easily as other similar sites… I’m even using an app, which I never did for Reddit.
Maybe, this is exactly what they wanted? Did they want to corral us into the Social Media that would ultimately suit them the best? Reddit and Twitter where sacrificial lambs?
