First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?
First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?
Yup.
iPhones and centralized, corporate social media are just what the internet is to a lot of people. People who were either too young to have used the pre-2008 Internet, or people who saw computers and the Internet as “too nerdy” or “too complicated” all ended up on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Those who didn’t think juggling multiple groups was too hard also maybe ended up on Reddit. Once Reddit had an official, first party app, at least.
These people make up the bulk of social media users, and these people likely won’t be leaving those spaces.
It’s all they’ve ever really known of the Internet. And it’s all they’ve ever wanted from it.
To be honest, it’s not like most of those people aren’t just lurkers anyway that don’t contribute to their communities. An open Internet can thrive without the majority of Reddit Facebook and Twitters users