Hahaha you know before this many people didn’t think of reddit as corporate corporate. They scewed themselves and ruined their goodwill

I understand this only because my husband still is looking at reddit. I had to have a talk with him as to why I am changing platforms, the point of not visiting a site during a protest, and how Lemmys and kbin need time to grow. He was looking at news and he said “well your site doesn’t have anything! It’s basically empty where am I supposed to go for discussion!”

I told him he needs to either just view the news sites directly and contribute, or just try to curb usage and allow the sites time to grow. Use your phones native news app for now, whatever it takes to not add to Reddits ad revenue and user count.

TIL, that’s just screwed. Sometimes short form content can be interesting, but 99% of the time I want a video I can watch along to. It’s terrible and I don’t understand the intense appeal these have. Didn’t Vine start it all?

Its pretty funny - I learned this the last 2 years I was to own a gas operated car. I had always struggled with certain models on which side the gas tank was and would embarrassingly have to switch stalls when I came out to realize I was on the wrong side.

Now I just have to remember what side my charging port is on, passengers get the zap is how I remember

Ohh yeah that can be such a pain to maneuver on a street, that really sucks and I didn’t think about that pain point with front charging cars! A leaf?

Wow that’s actually an incredibly depressing screenshot, and pretty much vile for how reddit is using them

This is true ! I do enjoy using the PWA app though

Wow I really wanted this, but I got a pixel 6a

Hmm

I just started the use the fediverse to get away from Meta (I have a somewhat active Instagram) and Reddit.

Now unfortunately my userbase is going to threads without knowing what it even is. I’m trying to spread awareness about the fediverse but it’s like yelling into the void. I signed up for threads and will continue to try to post content about the fediverse, but I also have to have an audience to share my art to as I’m trying to build some interest for a game I’m making.

This really sucks. I feel extremely upset about this whole meta thing. I could continue to try to build from scratch, but I am hoping to release the game next year and I already have 3 years head start on Instagram, it feels bad to also just abandon what I’ve worked hard on.

I dunno, I’m just venting. I hate Meta. I don’t even have a actual Facebook account. Hell I didn’t know Facebook owned Instagram until a year in.

I’ll just try to continue to stay active on my fediverse accounts. And try to promote the fediverse on the centralized BS networks.

Thank you so much, seeing the whole threads thing ruined my day yesterday night and this morning. I felt like a sense of hopelessness for the future of decentralized platforms.

You’re right, I can continue to use both for different purposes.

Thank you so much. Seriously!