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Let me generalize this thread because it was archetypical. #1: Much used, leading service went down the enshittification route. If we did this extremely convol
by chx 2y ago
Let me generalize this thread because it was archetypical.
#1: Much used, leading service went down the enshittification route. If we did this extremely convoluted geeky hack everything would be back to normal (it wouldn't).
#2: Let's use another service.
#3 and on: yes, here are other services which no one aside from statistical error uses.
Sigh.
Remember when people suggested to use Lemmy instead of Reddit?
You might ask, what's the point of this comment. Well, it's to get people to read https://pluralistic.net/ https://pluralistic.net/ more and for the geeks to start unionizing before it's too late (it already is).
- Flop7331 2y agoI used to really dislike Cory Doctorow back in the BoingBoing days, but he's really putting out some great stuff lately. I'm not sure which of us changed. Particularly nice that the top article right now is a takedown of a company that screwed me over, so I might also be biased.
- immibis 2y agoA few Reddit communities moved to Lemmy successfully. The key was that the community leader decisively said "We are moving there. No more posting here." and people who wanted to remain in the community did so. Another important factor is that people wanted to remain in the community - it wasn't just slop content for scrolling past, that no one missed.