That's where Lemmy really seems like the next stage of social media. I don't want a corporation running things or gamification or liberal censorship, just the same kind of forum I had in 2003 with the addition of networking. This is about as positive as social media gets as a technology and it's such a better experience than legacy platforms.
sooner or later they'll find a way to make you have to federate with some conglomerate of instances or else you'll miss out on shiny things and you'll be stuck in the same ol shit
I don't even know what shiny thing I could be tempted with. Social media companies have spent the last 20 years trying to out-shiny each other and the only feature I actually liked was Myspace's blogging community. The only thing of value for me here is sharing things I like with people who aren't rabid fascists. Add anything to that and it's self-defeating. Reddit's karma system is wildly toxic, twitter's signal boosting would just invite weird stalkers, facebook's friend networks make the platform feel like isolated islands. The only things that would improve Hexbear for me are self-created subcommunities like Lemmy.ml and a larger userbase. The latter is coming and for the former I just made a Lemmy.ml account, but they're already poisoned by reddit's karma.
That's where Lemmy really seems like the next stage of social media. I don't want a corporation running things or gamification or liberal censorship, just the same kind of forum I had in 2003 with the addition of networking. This is about as positive as social media gets as a technology and it's such a better experience than legacy platforms.
sooner or later they'll find a way to make you have to federate with some conglomerate of instances or else you'll miss out on shiny things and you'll be stuck in the same ol shit
I don't even know what shiny thing I could be tempted with. Social media companies have spent the last 20 years trying to out-shiny each other and the only feature I actually liked was Myspace's blogging community. The only thing of value for me here is sharing things I like with people who aren't rabid fascists. Add anything to that and it's self-defeating. Reddit's karma system is wildly toxic, twitter's signal boosting would just invite weird stalkers, facebook's friend networks make the platform feel like isolated islands. The only things that would improve Hexbear for me are self-created subcommunities like Lemmy.ml and a larger userbase. The latter is coming and for the former I just made a Lemmy.ml account, but they're already poisoned by reddit's karma.