So far out of all the fediverse i have found lemmy fits me best. So many other things want to mimic the X interface and that promotes more following of individuals and whatever they post about rather than ideas. I do much better over here because you follow a general topic and the posts are about that thing or related things. And I find that I do better in comments than making original posts. Like, I am a very introverted person, so have trouble getting a conversation started. But when I see a conversation of interest, I can generally add something to it.
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things want to mimic the X interface and that promotes more following of individuals and whatever they post about rather than ideas. I do much better over here because you follow a general topic and the posts are about that thing or related things
That's a really insightful comment. I bounce off Twitter/Mastodon, but really enjoy the Reddit/Lemmy interface. The focus on topics rather than people is probably why.
And that's exactly why I believe lemmy has the most potential to become the first fediverse project to become mainstream and challenge its big tech counterpart. The other ones face the entry barrier of a user not finding the influencers they want to follow, but this place has much fewer barriers to new users. For some, the experience is so smooth, that they won't ever touch reddit again.
If they weren't all insane, twitter's format has value for following real time events. For sports, for example, following a personally curated selection of sports reporters makes it a lot easier to keep up with transactions across the leagues I care about.
Reddit's is better for discussion of those events, but not everything gets that far.
Facebook's is supposed to be for actual friends to keep up with what's going on in each other's lives. Obviously it's not actually talking, and you still want to do that, but it makes it easier to keep up with a larger group of people.
The problem with all of them is that they're owned and run by insane shitbags, so they're not worth the trade off. And the problem with fediverse alternatives is that they all rely on network effect to have their value. But in theory they each have a place, which is how they all managed to coexist despite the strong constraint of needing volume to serve a purpose. They serve different uses.
Yeah, the mastodon-style interface lends well to real-time events like sports, as you mentioned, or news. Because it's just a feed of what's going on.
Tried kbin yet?
No, i never did. I heard it has quite a bit of issues, but that mbin is attempting to fix them
Getting regular people to host a service exposed to the Internet is going to go very smoothly I'm sure.
The “Follow me” format is bad for the internet. It creates “me me me” fake celebrities and “influencers.”
For those wondering what's different with GoToSocial:
This project sprang up in February/March 2021 out of a dissatisfaction with the safety + privacy features of other Federated microblogging/social media applications, and a desire to implement something a little different.
Somebody is going to have to run a public server unfortunately.