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Where will the internet go post-reddit and post-twitter? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by _number8_@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world

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both companies notably ruined the internet in the 2010s by consolidating discourse then taking various steps to destroy the user experience and the feel of the communities for profit.

so, broadly, the web went from cozy, small hobby forums in the 90s and 00s, then with the 10s as a transitional period, the 20s being practically complete corporate control of online discourse.

it's a bummer. but nothing lasts forever. where will we go next?

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[–] Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

a bunch of programming linuxites lying that their stuff is totally intuitive

This is my least favorite part of the fediverse. I'm pretty tech savvy, and the jump to Mastodon when Elon took over and Lemmy when apps stopped working wasn't easy. Having to pick an instance to sign up with was a huge roadblock for me.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago

Mastodon discovery seems harder to achieve than Lemmy, probably because there are only a few Lemmy instances with active communities, so as long as your instance is federated and there are enough users to have subscribed to most of the communities, you're good.

On Mastodon I always felt like the number of different instances and different people posting (each being their own mini community) made it harder to assess whether you were actually seeing everything