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It’s worth remembering that morality has little to do with it. Back then, sharing was simple and consequence-free. Now it’s not. If you want to create a community like that, it needs to be a curated space where only people who are able to share can join.
Heehaw! I exist in this space now!
I’m not paying for YouTube. It’s algorithm sucks, it routinely sells your personal data, and virtually none of the money you spend goes to its creators–that YouTube pretends otherwise is repulsive. How did we get in the situation where we’re being asked to pay more and more for worse and worse services? I’m not gonna be a part of it.
Why wouldn’t they want to stay? It works for them. Before ideology, before morality, before any other thing you can conceive of is plain, simple convenience. And Reddit is certainly convenient. Once enough users leave, they’ll leave, too.
Twitter and Reddit got so awful I needed to leave. Lemmy is fantastic and underpopulated, but Mastodon isn’t what I would want. I can search for hastags, but there’s no other way to search beyond the instance I’m in. That’s not what I want. I want a space that I can curate AND I want a local community. I got the latter, but the former…not so much.
So in a sense, I’m still a skeptic. But what else is there?
Some excellent games mentioned so far, so I’m gonna go with “Night in the Woods”. It’s this crystal-clear reflection on what it’s like to grow up now, what it’s like to live in America–good and bad. It’s gut-wrenching and funny and beautiful.
Be active in your community, whether that be online or off. People do notice you, even if you’re not sociable.
Night in the Woods. It’s hits you in places you never knew were sensitive until you’re acutely aware of each and every exposed nerve.
No way. Forums should never be run by the people the forum is discussing, for the same reason that newspapers should never be government-owned.