Today as I was searching for interesting communities to join I suddenly became saddened as I remembered this app that I spent hours using. StumbleUpon. When it was young it was the app I spent the most time on waiting between classes. just finding something interesting was always worth it.
The app is not what it used to be. I went to stumbleupon.com just to see and its all corporate. I'm sad because I kinda want StumbleUpon for the fediverse. Maybe I don't want to search for hours looking for communities to join, mastodon users to follow, or pixelfed instances that may have great photos. Maybe I want StumbleUpon for the Fediverse. I could connect it with any federated account, stumble upon something interesting, and subscribe. How could we go about building that?
What are your thoughts?
I am new to fediverse / lemmy as well. The traverse menu in the Memmy app at least lists out other communities to explore. Not quite stumble upon, but still useful.
I’m just waiting for more people to leave Reddit I think. Sort of surprised that more expel haven’t.
The Reddit communities are opening back up and the mods are getting replaced. I don't think there will be many more Reddit refugees coming unless the company does something stupid again.
Unless?
More like until
Like withhold the official app icon behind premium?
I’ve been surprised that so many people are completely fine with Reddit shitting on their faces, but then I remember how mainstream it got over the years and it makes sense.
Yeah many of the newer redditors are predisposed to eating shit, and many of the medium term redditors haven't yet realized how full of shit reddit actually is.
It's sh.it all the way down.
Remember, most people there are passively consuming content and don’t care. It’s when the content dries up or becomes boring they will leave. The problem then will be that they go to Instagram, TikTok or Twitter instead of Lemmy.