I want federated social media to kill off corporate social media because the latter is doing substantive damage to our society by giving Spez, Musk and Zuckerberg too much power over political discourse.
It’s a fine line where it goes from being big enough, to too big and outgrows where reddit was a decade ago. It will just become another shitty social site over run by shitty people.
I mean, I feel like it wasn’t the size of reddit that was the issue, but the constant refinement of how content was served up to ensure it was advertiser friendly and maximized engagement. r/all prior to them banning nsfw was great and you could see all kinds of weird new communities just by scrolling through a couple pages, but then it slowly turned into a clone of r/popular with all the big communities, and then a huge cliff when it should start showing you lesser known weird stuff.
I dunno, we’ve never had a huge social media platform that hasn’t been ruined by the platform itself, so it’s kind of new territory.
I think some people want Lemmy to become as big as Reddit. I don’t care if it does, I just want it to be big enough to have a good stream of content.
I want federated social media to kill off corporate social media because the latter is doing substantive damage to our society by giving Spez, Musk and Zuckerberg too much power over political discourse.
In terms of my time, the fediverse already has enough content for me, everything else is just the cherry on top.
I’d like us to grow organically. I don’t think we need to go and evangelize over at reddit.
I’d still like some more diversity of content though.
It’s a fine line where it goes from being big enough, to too big and outgrows where reddit was a decade ago. It will just become another shitty social site over run by shitty people.
I mean, I feel like it wasn’t the size of reddit that was the issue, but the constant refinement of how content was served up to ensure it was advertiser friendly and maximized engagement. r/all prior to them banning nsfw was great and you could see all kinds of weird new communities just by scrolling through a couple pages, but then it slowly turned into a clone of r/popular with all the big communities, and then a huge cliff when it should start showing you lesser known weird stuff.
I dunno, we’ve never had a huge social media platform that hasn’t been ruined by the platform itself, so it’s kind of new territory.