So where are we all supposed to go now?
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Twitter’s dying, Reddit’s changing, everything else is entertainment – and there’s nowhere left to hang out.

An era of the internet is ending, and we’re watching it happen practically in real time. Twitter has been on a steep and seemingly inexorable decline for, well, years, but especially since Elon Musk bought the company last fall and made a mess of the place. Reddit has spent the last couple of months self-immolating in similar ways, alienating its developers and users and hoping it can survive by sticking its head in the sand until the battle’s over. (I thought for a while that Reddit would eventually be the last good place left, but… nope.) TikTok remains ascendent — and looks ever more likely to be banned in some meaningful way. Instagram has turned into an entertainment platform; nobody’s on Facebook anymore…

  • Foggyfroggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    And the upvoting allowed good stuff from any topic to percolate up. I don’t know too much but the barriers between instances may mean some good content from lesser sources may not be seen or the supporters remain fragmented.

    • Asimov's Robot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      But the latter was also true of Reddit. Good information from smaller subreddits still remained unseen, because of upvoting.

      • TechnoBabble@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Binary voting isn’t a perfect system, but so far it’s proven to work well enough.

        If a better mechanism proves itself in the future I imagine Lemmy will adapt to it over time.