Cal
I know some things.
Weird. RIF still works here.
Red Dwarf.
It’s goofy. It’s campy. It’s sometimes terrible.
But it grows on you and by the time you are done through season 2 you love the show and only want more. And oh yes there is more, much more.
Quality content creators are mostly gone from Reddit. Quality content submitters are mostly gone from Reddit. Quality content commenters are mostly gone from Reddit.
So what’s left?
Mods who think they have value and for some reason care about their /r , and working for free.
Ads thinly disguised as posts. Bots spamming and upvoting those fake posts.
And nobody important reading.
The quality difference on lemmy/kbin is staggering. This is the perfect time to be part of it.
It’s inevitable it will start to slide once critical mass of users have been reached though. I’m curious if federated and smaller instances will keep it agile and fresh and big corp influence free.
You know, by now I’ve Reddit.
Why would I want pushed content from Meta of all places? I don’t want to see that.
And no, we don’t need to grow the Fediverse that way. It’s better to stay independent and develop organically and become the next big thing, not eaten by some overstuffed corporation not able to innovate.
Learn from history. Don’t repeat it!
RIF was always a very very good app. Probably the best app I have used on android.
Oh wow. This looks eerily similar to the Digg exodus. Oh the memories.
Nobody wants to listen.
When it happens it’s basically overnight. Like stretching a rubberband that you pull and pull and think it’s fine. Then you pull just a little bit too hard and it snaps. It will be impossible to put it together again.
We are no more than a few years, maybe a decade away from the hottest countries being completely unlivable. We are talking about 2+ Billion people that needs to move in a very short time. It’s coming and coming quickly. We’re not ready. Billions will die.
“The planet will be fine, it’s us humans that are fucked.” /Slightly paraphrased George Carlin.