I’m sick of the internet being 5 sites with all traffic channeled through them and maximum profit in the minds of the greedy corporate sociopaths that run them, it feels as intimate as an airport. I miss the days of niche forums and chat rooms where you could become a regular and build close relationships with the other regulars.
Death? Don’t get ahead of yourself. I doubt reddit is going anywhere, it just helped this place catch some wind.
my theory excactly. I doubt reddit will die anytime soon, but maybe lemmy could be something different with niche but interesting things and posts. Right now i like lemmy for what it is and am exploring it a bit.
With reddit moving towards mainstream users, I see lemmy becoming the smaller, more “interesting” technical and niche option, like reddit used to be.
i hope this comes true and stays as is for a while. I wasn’t around in the early days of reddit, so here I am, watching and learning to see another great community platform grow.
it won’t die, but it will probably change dramatically if mods are willing to stick to their guns and find somewhere else to moderate. which is a big if, but still. if r/videos can do it…
IMO the Internet peaked with the blogosphere era of the early-mid '00’s. While much of the activity took place on large blog-hosting websites like Wordpress or Blogger, the corporations had a pretty hands-off approach and “content creators” had greater influence and networks of similar blogs arose organically. Everyone had their blogroll listed on their sidebar and everything could be aggregated easily via RSS. I hope we can return to something like that model once again.
@kevinbacon social media owned by a single corporation isn’t sustainable without deteriorating the user experience.
I agree. Would also be great to see more control returned to users regarding data gathering and usage. Privacy isn’t dead, but it shouldn’t be this hard to maintain a semblance of it
