Wdym I can find all manner of dangerous shit by googling for five minutes

I’m a theoretical physicist and I can predict most dropped objects will fall to the floor

“here’s how to tell which one” so this guy has solved VC investment. Got it.

You know the company and the users are completely divorced when you read something like that. Redditors have spent years telling each other that awards are useless and a waste of money - then the admins touch it and everybody flips their lid. I for one am glad I’m no longer part of that toxic relationship.

I’m right there with you. I can already foresee that their apps will be prioritizing monetized users like content creators and everything in there will be a transaction of some sort. Who cares, you just have to block their instances and go about your merry way.

I don’t understand. Of course your normie family hasn’t heard of the big social app of 30 years ago, how is that even relevant ?

The scale of Usenet popularity was enormous for the time, roughly 15% of internet users were on usenet. In terms of today’s internet population that would be around 800M. That’s not niche, and that’s definitely in the ballpark of modern social media (double the size of reddit). There were a million different groups on a million different subjects, it was not for techies only you had active groups about gardening, ancient greek philosophy, writing, etc…

But most of all it was not clunky or difficult to use. The reason AOL “won” is because they shipped a quadrillion of those CD-Roms with free internet hours around the world, prompting people to try the internet out and those new users could discover chatrooms in one click. I’ll agree with you that the fediverse in its current state is clunky but usenet back in the day was far from it. It had fewer functionalities but was very straightforward to use.

What do you mean? Usenet was insanely popular back in the day, and not reserved to techies at all. All you needed was an email client, it was way easier than the fediverse, and a million times more polished.

The situations are vastly different. Digg was nowhere near as popular as reddit, and neither was social media in general. There’s a huge majority of people on reddit who don’t care about API prices and don’t want the old reddit back. They just want to see le funny meme and read made up stuff, they’re not gonna jump ship for some drama.

The only ones who care about that and want the old reddit back is us, right here. Which is cool because we have an opportunity to make it before the normies find out about it !

same haha

LGTM ✅

Let’s be realistic here, there’s very little chance that a significant portion of users migrate out. It’s cool. We don’t have to obsess about our ex.