hey! I went on reddit to invite people over here on a subreddit…
And asked if someone would be interested to create maintain a magazine/community that don’t exist here. I got shit over…
Thoughts?
links:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IASIP/comments/14gbtkg/found_an_iasip_community_in_the_fediverse/
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheCinemassacreTruth/comments/14gayv6/anyone_willing_to_manage_a_lemmykbin/
one shared my post elsewhere to laugh at me:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CinemassacreTruth/comments/14gcnmk/anyone_willing_to_manage_a_lemmykbin/
Please stop advertising for Kbin. Have you see the history of the people you were talking to? You want them in our mags? You want them to upvote their own content and make Kbin the next reddit shitshow? Stop.
People left reddit and it wasn’t just about the 3rd party app thing, it was also about the abysmal quality of the content. Reddit became too big and turned into a fest of attention whores. Keep Kbin at a reasonable size. Then people who matter will find us by themselves.
The loudest aren’t the majority. The loudest are often shills, trolls or AI bots. Just post that there’s an alternative, leave the link, and walk away. There will be people coming and joining quietly, in my experience.
I tried reading the replies to gain context but it just sounds like cryptobro nonsense so i checked out
I’m an older millennial, and I don’t understand this trend lately of labeling anything slightly technical as “crypto/techbro” shit. It’s like people see the word “server” or “IP address” or some shit and just get triggered by it. WTF? Can someone explain this trend? Back in my youth we didnt mind learning new shit, you HAD to in order to make effective use of your time online. That’s how the early Internet was built. By “techie” people.
I mean, I’m not a certified mechanic and have zero interest in working on cars, but I figured out how to change my own timing belt with a youtube tutorial.
I don’t know if its directly related to the present reaction, but us older millenials grew up with a different exposure to computers and the internet. It was still evolving so much, we had to figure it out. Younger millenials and Zoomers especially never had to deal with all of that - most of what they grew up on were iPhones and iPads and Chromebooks where everything is apps and userfriendly and “just works.” For example, Zoomers don’t even understand how file systems work. They never had to deal with them. It might not make sense to us, but the phrase “federated servers” is probably gibberish to a lot of younger folks.
I agree with you, but I think this is more an issue with the way crypto and its advocates have firehose-marketed that corner of technology, than an issue with laymen who aren’t interested. Crypto, web 3.0, etc. have been hyped as the future of the internet, coopting general concepts like decentralization as belonging to scheme-y crypto stuff rather than just a principle that crypto (ostensibly) aligns with.
I never got into any of that myself and am hyper-skeptical of it, but (hopefully) I know enough to determine that the Fediverse is not on the same plane as all that. I also wouldn’t blame anyone who can’t tell the difference.
Ok the person who said “sorry for not understanding something that is only popular with nerds” made me laugh because… Bro you are on reddit. You are using the outdated nerd gathering place to complain about nerds?
I will never in my life understand people that think of intelligence and curiosity as negative traits.