In other news, water is wet

Because the world is full of contradictions

I follow both, but a lot more people/organizations than hashtags.

I found that on old forums I did get to know the people regularly posting on them quite well over time (and they got to know me). On reddit and lemmy not so much, or do you have any idea about anything I’ve posted before (because I don’t know anything about you).

The main thing I would like to know is why so many people nowadays want a microblog platform, whether it is X or Bluesky or Mastodon, and why community-based platforms like Lemmy are getting relatively little attention in comparison.

Is it just that these people weren’t seriously online before the rise of microblogs? They didn’t start out with phpBB-style forums, so don’t miss their existence and think that individuals having followers is the normal state of the Internet? I’m genuinely not super sure what’s going on.

Wait, what? Which parts of this are satire now? I read the Onion piece that Global Tetrahedron was purchasing InfoWars, but this is a Guardian story saying The Onion is purchasing it? I’m a bit confused.

In the 2000s I thought that due to more and more people being on the internet, stories like this would be very common in the future, not just for the government, but private entities too.

In reality: Most things that happen at most workplaces are not interesting enough to leak, and most people do not want to risk their careers for something like this. So it’s still relatively rare.

I always find it funny when I read a lemmy thread that’s being posted in by microbloggers who just start all replies with @ followed by usernames of people they’re replying to.

no, I’m very certain I’ve never seen one, this article certainly doesn’t have one

you can sort !casualconversation@lemm.ee by “new comments”

Last decade it was “destroyed”

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/21/these-are-a-few-more-of-my-least-favorite-things/ point 2

WordPress has an ActivityPub plugin. I suspect you already know about it.

Some months ago I read about something called “Ghost” which either already has or is planning to add ActivityPub integration.

you do realize that people from other instances than beehaw can post here too? :D

I’ve been in online communities since shortly after my 10th birthday and this has never once been a problem.

Most of my friends when I was a teenager were people I met online. It was beyond a reasonable doubt good for me to be on the Internet during that time because it was the only place where I fit in, where I could be myself.

If I ever have kids, I hope they fit in better than I did offline, but if they don’t, there is no way I am going to prevent them from socializing in online communities.

At whatever age they want to.

holy shit why would you deprive kids of (often their only way to have any) social contacts and think you’re the good guys

Another author who doesn’t make the important distinction between moderation and censorship.

That happens relatively rarely. Remember the protests in recent years in Thailand, Hong Kong, Iran? They went exactly nowhere.

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you-speed-run-the-content-moderation-learning-curve/ strikes again

Can be either, neither is technically impossible. As another comment said, you can try for yourself what still works when your phone isn’t connected to the Internet.

The more time passes, the more information can already be found on the web (including forum threads) and the less need there is to post new threads to these kinds of forums.