Future is today, old man.

The good thing is the karma system is no longer here to torment you. You also won’t be shadowbanned for arbitrary reasons like on Reddit. I personally do prefer downvotes to use them against bad faith discourse or trolls (there was a user posting female scat pics on random communities in lemmy.world)

They already crippled the mobile site years ago and put login walls from a long while ago, way before the pandemic. old.reddit.com was the only thing that let me skip it. They deserve to die out.

Good thing I decided to move to lemmy.world. Seems shady.

It makes me hopeful for the future. Enthusiasts priming the pump for people embracing a more sustainable and less exploitative business model to organize the Internet. Instead of putting all the information on a big centralized locked down platform we share the load and costs between instances.

I love what is happening now, it is pretty much the biggest display of resistance against big tech I’ve ever seen in my life by a long shot. I’ve seen most of the internet gradually decay to a shadow of its former self so this is a return to form and a switch to a better model in the long run.

People are finally adopting the Fediverse and if the adoption rates keep up we might start going mainstream with all the advantages and disadvantages, but it will be alright since Lemmy is both federated and FLOSS. Lemmy is a Rust-based, AGPLv3 platform and that means it will be protected against corruption in the foreseable future, I hope.

EDIT: Over 30% of Reddit already went dark!

At least for me it seems like a good idea. I do not necessarily agree with Lemmy devs politically speaking, but at least they had the decency to make it a federated platform and to not maliciously concentrate people only to their instances. Participating from other instances is mostly hassle-free anyways. We can be civil here.

This is essentially the final stage of any ad-supported and VC-funded platform’s inevitable march towards enshittification.

Nope, I think the enshittification started well before since the mid 2010s, with the new design and the slew of increasingly user-hostile changes that started rolling ever since. But now with the public trading attempt and VC capital drying up everywhere it seems that all the big tech corps are slamming the gas on the enshittification machine.

Either way as a budding Rustacean I’m all for migrating to Lemmy. It means future proofing the community thanks to fediverse capabilities.

Yeah, it’s rotten to the core sadly. For all I care archive the important info and let it burn…

This lifecycle has a name now and it’s enshittification :the cycle of internet platforms starting out as open seamless spaces of discourse to lure users and then welding the gates shut to then appease advertisers and shareholders drastically lowering the quality of life and discourse

Return in all aspects to how it used to be in 2014 or earlier, but it will never happen because enshittification cannot be reverted.

That includes the bloated inefficient new design that includes an intentionally hostile mobile website that shits the bed on 3G connections, the echo chamber machinery, random layout shifts, NSFW login walls, automated censorship and shadowbanning, the privileges for the big subreddits and the big sponsored powermods.