IzzyJul 2, 2023

I believe we are about to see a radical shift in how we use the internet, we just don't know what will take form yet.

Most of us were on forums and IRCs 10-15 years ago. After that, most of us went to social media.

I think we are reaching the end of the social media era as we know it.

Right now, people are leaving places like Twitter and Reddit and moving to federated/decentralized social platforms.

What's to come after this?
Not sure. Only time will tell.

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@GeekBrony It feels like it, but I'm not convinced the general public will learn the lessons from this that I hope they'd learn.. I guess we'll see
Jul 2, 2023 at 11:59amWeb
Show threadIzzyJul 2, 2023
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I hope so! But the general public has the memory of a fish with these sorts of things, so I doubt it.
Show threadTech Support Jul 2, 2023

@malice @GeekBrony agreed, seeing all the people clamor to get bluesky invites to jump off Twitter spells it out.
Yeah they want to get out from under the madman running the site, but they're jumping back into the exact same conditions that led to that madman beig in control in the first place. The cycle will repeat, and faster.

Hoping I'm just being pessimistic, we really need a renaissance, a return to form of the old web (communities, long lived message boards and forums etc) with modern identity, security, and tastes. And we need it widely used