With Kbin, Calckey, Mastodon, lemmy, Hugo and more we can. We don’t need to be trapped within the social media giants, especially after what happened to Instagram, Twitter, and now Reddit. Now is the time when we need to revert to the habit of using community websites, rather than social media giants.
“ad blocks you back youtube” what’s this one about? I must have missed it?
agree 💯!!
Absolutely.
The internet has become basically a handful of sites on which people share these sites’ publications It’s become some kind of meta feedback loop.
this is the way. their way is not the way
I mean, did they steal it? Or did people largely willingly give it away? People willingly left the older decentralized platforms in favor of centralized corporate platforms because, for one reason or another, they felt it was a better use of their time. The old-school forums weren’t killed; people stopped using them and left for Reddit and Facebook and Instagram etc.
If we want to reverse this, we need to understand why this happened, what those service provided that lured people, and how we can build better alternatives, and I think there’s more to this than just “corporation bad”.
Edit: Downvote if you like, but I’d much prefer an actual response, because I think there is an interesting conversation to be had about this.
You can’t really blame this on the people. The centralized platforms offered something that for most people worked a lot better than what was already existing. In the beginning, those corporate platforms were actually quite good so it’s only natural that people flocked to it.
It’s only after those companies achieved a monopoly in their market, that they started pulling a bait-and-switch and began to enshittify their sites. Network effect makes it so that mass migration to something that’s technically better is unlikely. This bait-and-switch is where they stole it from the people.
Hell yeah you can blame the people. They chose to use those platforms, and they choose to stay with them as they grow ever shittier. They’re the ones enabling platforms like reddit.
Instead of reddit use Kbin/Lemmy
Instead of twitter use Mastodon
Instead of YouTube use Peertube/Odysee
By the way, we should stop using imgur for pictures
What should we use for pictures?
Here are some alternative:
https://alternativeto.net/software/imgur/At the moment I’m using mastodon, it works.
