So where are we all supposed to go now?
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Twitter’s dying, Reddit’s changing, everything else is entertainment – and there’s nowhere left to hang out.

An era of the internet is ending, and we’re watching it happen practically in real time. Twitter has been on a steep and seemingly inexorable decline for, well, years, but especially since Elon Musk bought the company last fall and made a mess of the place. Reddit has spent the last couple of months self-immolating in similar ways, alienating its developers and users and hoping it can survive by sticking its head in the sand until the battle’s over. (I thought for a while that Reddit would eventually be the last good place left, but… nope.) TikTok remains ascendent — and looks ever more likely to be banned in some meaningful way. Instagram has turned into an entertainment platform; nobody’s on Facebook anymore…

  • craberium@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    64·
    1 year ago

    Forums as a response to leaving Reddit feels odd to me despite subreddits basically being forums. I guess without a way to aggregate separate forums into one app it loses the appeal that Reddit had for me.

    Here’s hoping lemmy takes off.

    • SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.caEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, that’s the killer. Reddit was great because I could join a hundred communities and see all of them in one place. Sounds like we need a common forum aggregator of some sort.

      Or Lemmy. Liking it so far.

      • craberium@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        Same. Only thing I’m missing so far is some of my favorite communities like r/onepunchman

        I used to rely on it for notification of English translations of new chapters

        • cornbread@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Same, as well as several other anime communities. There is a OPM community here but so far it’s just a bot reposting Reddit posts with no other engagement.

          More people need to bring up migrating to lemmy on those subreddits.

          • cornbread@lemm.eeEnglish
            101·
            1 year ago

            A lot of people here deleted their Reddit accounts when they left.

      • Foggyfroggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        And the upvoting allowed good stuff from any topic to percolate up. I don’t know too much but the barriers between instances may mean some good content from lesser sources may not be seen or the supporters remain fragmented.

        • Asimov's Robot@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          But the latter was also true of Reddit. Good information from smaller subreddits still remained unseen, because of upvoting.

          • TechnoBabble@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Binary voting isn’t a perfect system, but so far it’s proven to work well enough.

            If a better mechanism proves itself in the future I imagine Lemmy will adapt to it over time.