Same boat. There was a time I used to enjoy going there, but it’s become an unhealthy addiction. Playing on my serotonin and dopamine, and I’m cutting it out, this is just a good excuse to.
The interesting thing is that they have critical mass and decided it was worth cutting off these users, but (and maybe this is arrogance), but the internet has always followed where the power users are. They are the ones who started back with MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Google+ (didn’t say they were all successful but hey), Discord, Digg and Reddit.
Not all of them panned out, but all of the big networks started with core power users embracing a platform of dedicated users who evangelized their platforms to get other people to join.
The big social medias are seeing what happens when those dedicated users give up and start leaving, the content dries up, and you can only rely on shill posts for so long
but it’s become an unhealthy addiction. Playing on my serotonin and dopamine
The same with all those major sites: it stopped being about community at some point and became about engagement, because that drives data points which makes them money.
Reddit has been an unhealthy place for a long time with numerous incidents where the admins haven’t acted out of moral choices but in the a way that is least damaging to engagement and the brand
Ive had this conversation with people over the years but a lot more recently and its a common comment that people miss the niche communities, the wonderfully weird and surreal sites you would stumble across whereas now its 5 corporate sites reposting the same jokes or content designed to keep you angry about the wrong things.
Re-engaging with lemmy.ml and finding here has made my heart flutter that I’m not alone!
I started my own Wordpress site as a way to counter act the feel of centralized dread, and that opened me up to the multitude of small sites out there being run by people for the sake of running them. There’s a lot of small weird stuff out there, it’s just getting daily double digit views.
Same boat. There was a time I used to enjoy going there, but it’s become an unhealthy addiction. Playing on my serotonin and dopamine, and I’m cutting it out, this is just a good excuse to.
The interesting thing is that they have critical mass and decided it was worth cutting off these users, but (and maybe this is arrogance), but the internet has always followed where the power users are. They are the ones who started back with MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Google+ (didn’t say they were all successful but hey), Discord, Digg and Reddit.
Not all of them panned out, but all of the big networks started with core power users embracing a platform of dedicated users who evangelized their platforms to get other people to join.
The big social medias are seeing what happens when those dedicated users give up and start leaving, the content dries up, and you can only rely on shill posts for so long
The same with all those major sites: it stopped being about community at some point and became about engagement, because that drives data points which makes them money.
Reddit has been an unhealthy place for a long time with numerous incidents where the admins haven’t acted out of moral choices but in the a way that is least damaging to engagement and the brand
Reading this whole comment thread felt therapeutic somehow. You all get it.
Ive had this conversation with people over the years but a lot more recently and its a common comment that people miss the niche communities, the wonderfully weird and surreal sites you would stumble across whereas now its 5 corporate sites reposting the same jokes or content designed to keep you angry about the wrong things.
Re-engaging with lemmy.ml and finding here has made my heart flutter that I’m not alone!
I started my own Wordpress site as a way to counter act the feel of centralized dread, and that opened me up to the multitude of small sites out there being run by people for the sake of running them. There’s a lot of small weird stuff out there, it’s just getting daily double digit views.