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“Could”, more like “already is”. It’s a darn shame, and honestly I kind of wish the Fediverse had taken off long ago so we wouldn’t be stuck with these repositories of information being walled off by centralized tech companies

Forums are very useful for fostering discussion of gaining information. Especially in sectors like tech. As for other types of discussion, well…it can get toxic.

I really appreciate how Verge has covered this absolute shitshow. The administration is insisting on doing every stupid move possible to get their way, and destroy the communities in the chase to be a generic social TikTok clone.

Good riddance. This place is way better for my mental health.

I don't think much of Mastodon as it is, so they're free to rag on Lemmy all they want.

Great writeup about the situation, and wonderful to hear actual mods speak. The requests the community is making are very reasonable. But Spez thinks they're too big to fail.

The only way to prove him wrong is to stay away. In the meantime I've joined Beehaw, subscribed to a couple instances outside of Beehaw, and get my news primarily from the websites that I was otherwise seeing being linked to on Reddit.

I imagine folks wouldn't have a problem with this if the ads weren't already so aggressive. Numerous ads before and during the content break it up too much. And if the content is extremely short form, it completely ruins the experience.

The number of ads and their length should be proportional to the length of the video. And any creator doing built-in ads should also not be able to inject a bunch of other ads. Burying content is an easy way to get avoided.

Print media had limits for advertisements, heck, in magazines they were premium real estate for the finest graphic designers to put together incredible imagery to get your attention. This level of care (not necessarily images or what have you) has yet to translate to the web.

Agreed. The Netflix one is out of my control as I don't pay for it. So this discussion may be inevitable.

My family is paying nearly $30/month for Netflix now, on top of paying for cable TV, Max, and Amazon. I currently pay for Hulu and Disney+ and share it with the family, but I really hope password crackdowns are not the norm.

If they are, I'm gonna have a good talk with them about other options. Just throwing money away because "Well what if I want to watch something on that platform one night and I don't have it" is precisely how these vampires want people to feel - the fear of lack of access.

I was able to get into BlueSky thanks to a random person giving me an invite. The userbase is about 100,000 but I'd say maybe 10-15% are actually participating in the community.

It has a very chaotic, early Twitter feel to it. There's a perpetual reply chain called "The Hellthread", which has replies numbering in the thousands daily where folks are chatting, sharing memes, selfies, what have you. The userbase seems to be mostly hard-leftists, shitposters, and the LGBT community (some of the most popular users embody all three of those).

Honestly? I like it. The users there are very chaotic in poking fun at the world around them, but are incredibly supportive and positive to each other. Of the alternatives to Twitter I've tried, BlueSky (jack's shittiness aside) is the service that reminds me the most of why I liked Twitter before it went to hell with bots and misinformation campaigns.

I'm with you. Once i saw someone on Mastodon bemoan that wearing masks is no longer a firm requirement for just about everywhere, I knew I'd stumbled into somehwere bad, where people found commonality in the pandemic mentally breaking them.

That is not me diminishing the impact of the pandemic at all. We're going to feel the effects of that for a long, long time, in a myriad of ways! I'm just pointing out that it's not only in terms of physical or economic health. Some folks are, mentally speaking, extremely different from who they used to be. And in some pockets of the internet, those folks are stuck in 2020.

I also like to be happy and be positive when necessary. Not everything we watch or play or consume is perfect and great and wonderful, but at the same time, it's not steaming hot garbage either. Going back to this decentralized community at least allows us the chance to be heard in saying "Yeah, the new Pokemon games? They have both upsides and downsides to them, it's not entirely hot trash!" and not be shunned into oblivion.

Mastodon has big “this is the year of the Linux desktop” energy, just self-absorbed posting and no collaboration between users. Aside from a rare few exceptions, it’s a bunch of frumps. All the shitposters went to BlueSky.

Let ‘em, we’ll share content here.