You seem to think the issue with people adopting socialist beliefs is branding.
But it really, really isn’t.
You seem to think the issue with people adopting socialist beliefs is branding.
But it really, really isn’t.
How dare they fixate on topics I think are remedial.
Almost like they are stepping stones.
I think it’s fine what they are doing.
Look, some people are not switching. But if they aren’t going to switch, more negative PR for Reddit is the most they can accomplish. We can speculate all we want about the abstract value of negative PR vs engagement, but at the very least I support this over them being there and silent about disliking it.
The members of a site openly despising the site itself encourages migration too. Keep the attention on how lothesome things are and people are more likely to drift away slowly over time.
If you think their individual contribution there doesn’t matter, why do you think their individual contribution leaving the site matters.
We’re always a minority.
Taking photos with my eyes. Would help a ton with getting pictures of cool bugs without having to fiddle with my phone and get defeated by autofocus
There are 5 different forums on the internet about this topic.
You don’t have to join all or any of them. But they are each available to you.
“not into a niche thing” basically
Normie is fine, NPC is where it gets cringe
Jason Steel is actually pretty based
The US criminal justice system has never been for rehabilitation. No sane person thinks jail makes someone less likely to commit crimes.
Luckily, we’ll find out not too long from now. Hope you’re right.
Threads will essentially be the space, with all currently existing communities left as periphery. Which is very bad on it’s own because the decentralized space is no longer decentralized, and in fact is in the hands of Meta.
Meta will eventually wall itself off because not having control of your users social graph is an unnecessary threat. And since they are the space, so they will lose very little by walling off. When they do wall off, the fediverse will have it’s communities deeply intermingled with Meta, and when people lose most of their friends and content to meta walling themselves off - most are going to choose to relocate to meta.
I do still think this is a good thing, but it’s a complicated good thing that could do more damage. I am very worried that they aren’t starting off federated. That also means their internal community norms will develop isolated from what fediverse has tried to establish.
aka: early tech adopters!
these folk are always the ones trying new things, especially anti-corporate things. They aren’t keeping people away. this is just how the bleeding edge of new technology. The communities natural grow out over time as more people show up and start to outnumber them. But it’s thanks to them that niche new stuff gets supported in the first place while it builds up it’s audience (and reduces the friction to joining)
Are people really still convincing themselves this is a 5D chess move.
After everything else, are we still doing that?