Thank you spez for freeing me of my reddit habit. Shoutout /r/neography for being the chillest hobby subreddit. I will miss looking at other people’s weird ways of writing but it’s for the best.
Do you have anything you’ll miss from reddit?
I’ve totally cut out my reddit usage down to zero thanks to hexbear. Hoping for alternatives to twitter and youtube soon to take over.
It’s amazing to me that YouTube has survived the past 20 years at all, tbh. Guess a functional monopoly will do that
Google is the only company that can afford the endless money pit of a server based, user generated content video hosting service, and no one has figured out how to do it cheaper. People are trying to reinvent peer to peer networking to get there (see peertube), but haven’t quite figured it out yet.
I’ve been having a good time on Masto. I can’t follow any of the podcast people on there (except Paris Marx and Molly White), but I already spend a lot more time there than Twitter. I might be biased though.
Youtube / Twitch will be a much tougher nut to crack. We have the software (Peertube), but the infrastructural requirements for video platforms is immensely higher than message boards and microblogs. It costs me more to fill my gas tank than it does to run a Mastodon instance for one month. On the other hand, an active video platform would absolutely require user donations unless you are a Hacker News American Psycho.
The future of video platforms would be basically reinventing peer to peer networking, but with some kind of CDNs, seedboxes or servers involved as well to ensure that not all the load is purely on the peers. And without the security risks of directly connecting to peers. I now that peertube is trying something like that, and stremio does it with torrents, so you can stream torrents. And there’s acestream for peer to peer livestreams.
I think the big players like Google will catch on to this as well. Microsoft basically uses their own version of peer to peer networking that’s quite honestly similar to torrenting to distribute windows updates (lol), no way is Google just going to let YouTube lose money. Either FOSS (free open source software) or the big corporations will figure it out first. I hope its FOSS.
I’ll miss the tech support advice and actually being able to talk to real people about problems with tech instead of some robot or sales person/official employee who knows shit about fuck.
Won’t miss all the pedantic condescending nerds that embody the Dunning Kruger effect though lol.
An AI that would be able to detect sarcastic quotation marks in text would cut down on them by 99%, I’m sure of it.
No other subreddit embodied these two sides more than the formula 1 subreddit lol. We’d get AMAs from ex F1 engineers, current drivers, articles about leaked designs, with great information about the racecars and the sport. And then some jackass would show up in the comments peddling the popular Reddit narrative of the time and get hundreds of upvotes, while the actual experts got downvoted lmao.
Imagine working for your entire life to get to the top of your career field as a race car/vehicle dynamicist, just to get downvoted by cringe redditors because you said that there was no such thing as the Mercedes superpower engine in 2021 💀.
My favorite random conspiracy at the back half of 21 on that sub was “They obviously took all of botas engines gave them to Hamilton and turned them all the way up !!!”
They also complained endlessly about Twitter when they are just as baby brained, very funny.
The sports subs were the absolute worst. Just a constant stream of changing of the hivemind back and forth on certain topics while also being incredibly smug. I was so glad to see how made they were after the subs closed.
those subs were great
“why is path of exiles crashing when i log in”
“probably your power supply you need to buy a new one”
awesome advice
not gonna lie, what i’m gonna miss is just having all the different random communities be accessible in one spot. instead of having one forum per hobby i could let my adhd addled brain go to whatever hyperfixation i was on that moment
Yeah with fediverse you get exactly that, while also getting all the different forums and weirdness that comes with it.
are there solid mobile apps for lemmy federation that can work like reddit? i saw that r/fuckcars and r/piracy jumped over to lemmy, and I’d love to keep following them
Losing all the trans subs really sucks
