How delightfully European Union of them to debate debate debate in the face of a looming crisis.
Yes Lemmy has a lot of improving to do, but I'm not seeing many other alternatives!
Kirk
joined 1 year ago
I disagree that having a variety of UIs is a bad thing. I wouldn't want every instance to look like dbzero! It also highlights that Lemmy is not a single platform, it's a federation of them. Heck even reddit has two UIs!
Yeah I agree, it's designed for discussion, not shitposts.
For the life of me, I'll never understand the mind of a viewer who gives a shit about aggregated rating scores like that.
Whenever I hear that a MAGA member is also a Star Trek fan:
This makes sense to me if you consider the type of person who is likely to leave reddit is also less likely to be just a passive consumer of content. I imagine in ten years time we'll have two kinds of "social" media: decentralized activitypub discussion-based networks, and commercial entertainment platforms that might have comments but little else in the way of connecting.
Another stat I like to highlight is the moderator-to-user ratio on Lemmy (and the rest of the Fediverse) is similarly around 10x more improved.
When i said "designed for discussion" I meant that Mastodon posts are displayed in chronological order instead of sorted by engagement.
I agree that would result in a commercial failure, but Mastodon is not commercial, not does it have an obligation to grow. So it seems to be working very well for the people who do use it.
What does "fail" mean? Twitter's algorithm is for entertainment. Mastodon is designed for discussion. Both can exist just fine, but you can't have a platform that does both well.
A good essay, but I find it ironic that the author used "finding a recipe" as an example of the old web working well when recipe blogs are frequently the top example cited when someone is talking about SEO slop in the pre-AI web.