Don’t let this go to your head, but as I read the first comment you left me and others I read from your profile, I thought, this person was a star at Reddit and left when everyone else did. I’m glad you’ve embraced your mission.
I’ll say, I don’t share stuff for popularity — I share it because I want others to know about it or I want to know if they agree or disagree with it.
I’m a big fan of typewriters and I think sometimes about starting an r/typewriters here… that and r/idiocracy are what i miss most from Reddit.
I say go for it, I don’t know how much of a typewriter community is out here, but this is the waning days of online communities, might as well try to enjoy it and connect with others while you still can.
Waning… you could be referring to the rest of vapid mainstream socials… and I agree that’s waning or already lost, but I have great faith in the Fediverse. You do not?
I think this is a good alternative to spaces like reddit, but so far this reminds me a LOT of early reddit or digg, meaning it will go in one of two directions - fade off into obscurity or get popular enough to get eyed by capital and political forces and eventually digested. Eventually all online spaces are going to be either completely compromised by populations of grifters and bots, or they will be the last holdouts of “pure” online communication, slowly declining in numbers until they’re like so many empty servers and forums out there already.
I mean, it could very well hold out if there are enough dedicated people who work to preserve the space and moderate it effectively, but my experience in moderating tells me that it’s often a losing game once there’s blood in the water. People have a hard time keeping up with and staying dedicated to upholding consistent values in moderation. I’ve seen huge spaces fall just because the mods got tired of pruning and shepherding the flock, so they get replaced by less dedicated people, who then get replaced by subversive forces with entirely different motivations.
I suppose it’s possible we could train and maintain benevolent AI systems to guard against the armies at the gates, but even that is just an escalation of a back-and-forth war between the last vestiges of human creativity and collaboration, and the tidal forces of commercialization, political manipulation and mental manipulation, which are going to be far more powerful than we can even imagine.
I remain hopeful that spaces like this will subsist long into the century, but more and more I am doubting our abilities as biological beings, products of evolution, to preserve anything that matters.
(My old days of reddit fame were a lot more optimistic and cheery. A lot has happened.)
Yeah… seeing in the century time frame… I’m barely able to fathom six months or a year. I can see Lemmy growing at its current rate for a decade without becoming dog shit for certain.
There is a percentage of the mainstream getting fed up with dogshit. They are sniffing around.
Don’t let this go to your head, but as I read the first comment you left me and others I read from your profile, I thought, this person was a star at Reddit and left when everyone else did. I’m glad you’ve embraced your mission.
I’ll say, I don’t share stuff for popularity — I share it because I want others to know about it or I want to know if they agree or disagree with it.
I’m a big fan of typewriters and I think sometimes about starting an r/typewriters here… that and r/idiocracy are what i miss most from Reddit.
I say go for it, I don’t know how much of a typewriter community is out here, but this is the waning days of online communities, might as well try to enjoy it and connect with others while you still can.
Waning… you could be referring to the rest of vapid mainstream socials… and I agree that’s waning or already lost, but I have great faith in the Fediverse. You do not?
I think this is a good alternative to spaces like reddit, but so far this reminds me a LOT of early reddit or digg, meaning it will go in one of two directions - fade off into obscurity or get popular enough to get eyed by capital and political forces and eventually digested. Eventually all online spaces are going to be either completely compromised by populations of grifters and bots, or they will be the last holdouts of “pure” online communication, slowly declining in numbers until they’re like so many empty servers and forums out there already.
I mean, it could very well hold out if there are enough dedicated people who work to preserve the space and moderate it effectively, but my experience in moderating tells me that it’s often a losing game once there’s blood in the water. People have a hard time keeping up with and staying dedicated to upholding consistent values in moderation. I’ve seen huge spaces fall just because the mods got tired of pruning and shepherding the flock, so they get replaced by less dedicated people, who then get replaced by subversive forces with entirely different motivations.
I suppose it’s possible we could train and maintain benevolent AI systems to guard against the armies at the gates, but even that is just an escalation of a back-and-forth war between the last vestiges of human creativity and collaboration, and the tidal forces of commercialization, political manipulation and mental manipulation, which are going to be far more powerful than we can even imagine.
I remain hopeful that spaces like this will subsist long into the century, but more and more I am doubting our abilities as biological beings, products of evolution, to preserve anything that matters.
(My old days of reddit fame were a lot more optimistic and cheery. A lot has happened.)
Yeah… seeing in the century time frame… I’m barely able to fathom six months or a year. I can see Lemmy growing at its current rate for a decade without becoming dog shit for certain.
There is a percentage of the mainstream getting fed up with dogshit. They are sniffing around.