The best possibility is something like I’ve done. I split my social media time between here, Reddit, Facebook, Threads, and a Mastodon instance that doesn’t federate (in addition to being a viewer on YouTube & PeerTube). You can’t hold all the people all the time. It’s just not feasible. So yes, people going back to Reddit is expected. But it’s when they come back and find something they want that’s important.
I’m going to present the opposite opinion to yours here. Kbin represents the best way forward for social media, to me. If we can get a working PeerTube integration after Threads federates, I’m all set. It’s what Google Plus was supposed to be, it’s why I first (as a user) used TweetDeck back in the day. It puts everything in one place again. I was a LiveJournal user back in the day, which was another place like this - communication & community, but individual places for your thoughts. I tried Tumblr for a while and it was close to an LJ replacement.
Everything since then has fractured and fragmented so we have very aggressive echo chambers, but no private places. This might be able to give that back to the users.
I accept that it can feel like drinking from the firehose at the start. It was to me at first too, but I was aware of Lemmy early on, and I was on two Mastodon instances that didn’t cofederate. I knew what I was going in for. I stepped back from Kbin when a known tech issue degraded my experience, and it’s been fixed. I think the thing is that Kbin allows you to curate your own experience, rather than be tied into doing one thing or another all the time.
I think when Kbin is ready for prime time and when the major issues are fixed, there might be a need to look at the first-timer experience, maybe even a tutorial. Because it’s not a beginner focused interface. It’s meant for us who want it all back in one place, and accepted the burden of experience that means.
I’m not at my computer, so please excuse any mobile issues. I’m in favor of the move, because it will help to simultaneously connect and decentralize communications across the platforms. Say what you will about Facebook (you’re probably right), but if they’re that bad, then it seems logical to me to connect to their federated service even more aggressively.
The more we push our content (and by extension the Fediverse content that kbin aggregates), the less impact their algorithm can have. The more we go out of the way to expose their content, the harder we make it them to curate/censor/suppress any voices. And if, when comparing two Fediverse instances or softwares, we find that what’s been pushed to them is different, we the users can call it out to news organizations (or make it public ourselves).
And yes, I know I’m making the arguments for supporting private companies in adopting open-source. It’s about being able to audit what companies we don’t trust are doing.
In addition to that, I’m currently a Threads user. Anecdotally, there’s a lot of wholesome content on there that I appreciate, and what limited advertising is there is nowhere near as obtrusive as Reddit or the main Facebook platform.
Pitchfork being on an alternative social platform just feels right to me. So I say, go for it.
Because Threads presents an opportunity to grow the community on ActivityPub services, and because the Fediverse presents the opportunity to extend the community I’m involved in that’s on Threads right now. My hope is that if that group respects what the Fediverse offers, they will also start sharing the podcast on PeerTube
My hand is raised.
I find it interesting that they didn’t suggest the possibility that came to my mind first: cannibalization. If it was small to start with, but in clearing the neighborhood, also was volcanic enough to absorb smaller planetoids, it might have absorbed them and grown.
I think it’s time to shut it down, hard. That’s the start of something that will not end well for human beings.
So you want to have the Side colonies from Gundam?
Flipboard was neat originally, but never really held my attention.
Honestly, given the ruckus they’ve been raising for a while now, my feeling is that Beehaw wants to push themselves away from society as a whole. I don’t agree with their perspective, which is part of why I never engage with much of their content or users. All I can say is that I wish them only the best for their echo chamber.
When the shoe fits, start wearing it. PRC is an authoritarian state led by a dictator and his cronies.
Laptops, Chromebook, tablets (iPad and Android), and an android phone. I’ve basically got everything but an actual desktop (which is fair since I don’t have a desk).
I have so many shows I need to catch up on that I could never run out of “new-to-me” media. But there’s some I could suggest:
After the 2-day blackout, I went back to using it as normal. Now, I usually have two tabs open; one for kbin, one for Reddit. On my phone, I have the Reddit app, and while it’s heavier than RedReader, it works well enough. I just make sure to tap every ad I see, to drive up the advertisers’ costs and help to drop campaign conversion.
And it’s not indexed or archived in any public way.
Is there any Owncast host that’s similar to YouTube or Twitch in terms of relative painlessness? If it requires each person host their own caster instance, it’s not going to gain wide adoption.
The amount of Excel/spreadsheets I use in my hobbies and “leisure” time is massive. Otherwise, it’s mostly about having surrendered to the presence of online ads.
Super Mario Bros. - I’m sorry for Hopper & Hoskins’ experiences (RIP). But between the directorial chaos, editorial saves, and constant drunkenness, they turned out a pretty solid dark cyberpunk movie that feels more like “two New York plumbers save the day” than the recent movie. The visuals mostly still hold up, the story is okay. There’s maybe a few things that could be improved, but overall I don’t think it’s all that bad.
Maybe on your instance - it’s your loss. But admins have a choice - defed from them and lose access to all those users and having actual content worth looking at, or federate with them and actually grow your network into something that has enough going on to make people interested. As it is, I use Threads right now. I strongly prefer it to Mastodon. Kbin comes close, but has less content to idly scroll through. If no Fediverse site I use supports Threads, I’ll keep on using it.