Reddit protests so I migrated to try kbin, lemmy, mastodon. Learned about fediverse, activitypub - than down rabbit hole to open source communities, then open source software…moved to linux and it’s a whole new world!

Don’t travel with people you like…test drive it somewhere close…different travel styles have ruined friendships lol

Amazing…thank you for sharing!

what if he already is a force ghost 0_0

FB was only for college kids, now it’s for your grandparents.

Absolutely tick those boxes. And it makes perfect sense.

That’s a great idea to link to Lemmy.world, I could make like a little intro welcome card with the tips we picked up to get used to this world

AOC does turn 35 on 10/13/24, one month before the presidential election

I missed a niche community of mine. It’s a ghost town, but I talk to myself and I see the lurkers lol one can hope. Post and the will come.

Isn’t she eligible to run herself now? Things can absolutely get worse but can we try to have some imagination? Sigh

Ahh the future satisfaction I’ve given myself to me by being able to say 10 years from now “there were no posts! …no one knew what an instance was…” and hopefully it was still be good and that day im acting holier than thou

I miss AIM and forums, bygone era

I think there are multiple illusions into using one community. I don’t think people do. The average user love instagram when it was for sharing photos, facebook before it was for grandparents, vine (now tik tok) when it was for funny clips, youtube for silly content, reddit for thread format speaking, snapchat for stupid private chats. If we are talking about centralized communication I’m not so sure that is the case either. The reason all of those platforms I just mentioned got ruined for the most part is being of the growth of influencing and monetization. Once capitalism came in it completely changed the original intent of why the user liked those platforms, I doubt most of them even remember why they liked it when they joined it changed so fast. What people want, without actually realizing it, are the same services without the garbage product they’ve excepted and its turned into.

I don’t want lemmy and mastodon specifically traced their centralized counterparts. I only want the average person to have access to and knowledge of their options.

Imo we don’t need to replace anything, this is really nice the way it is. Yes some users for more interactions and content definitely of course would be nice for more people to use it.