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Good. It's about time for more people to move on to better platforms. Twitter is a cesspool, and Reddit has some good communities that will be better served from a platform that's not ruled by a greedy corporation that couldn't care less about its users.

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What are these better platforms? Genuinely curious.

Seems like a golden moment to astroturf in a successor with both reddit and twitter sabotaging themselves?

tildes.net comes to mind

have you got invites?

I don't have any invites left, but you can get one easily on /r/tildes.

> Tildes is currently in invite-only alpha, and you must be invited to be able to register.

Copying the Google+ model, nice. We all saw how very well that went.

You're being absurd.

Tildes is so profoundly unlike Google+ in so many levels I can only assume you never even opened their website.

Why astroturf? I mean, social media networks are naturally cyclical; the only thing they do is connect users, all the content comes from the users themselves, so the only way they can compete is by being free and not having figured out an annoying business model yet. Once they have to start making a profit, they are done for. Reddit and Twitter are about to hit/have hit that point. No astroturf here, plant some all-natural grass seed.

Biasing parent comment with an /s, maybe meant to say “create huge traffic of anime porn and burn down bank as well as hosting accounts of the poor operator”? That kind of happened with Mastodon and is happening on Misskey. :mailus_banknotes_areallscams:

You are talking on one of them.

Fair enough. I do enjoy a daily dose of meme though and I’d prefer that that didn’t come from this website. It feels like this is the one place I can go to to find (usually) intelligent conversation about a wide range of topics.

funny enough that daily dose of meme feels like it has infected the entirety of reddit, at least on any sub with more than 100k subs that doesn’t have extremely strict moderation. a few months ago i left any and all subreddits that allowed image/meme posting and my reddit experience became a lot better.

Why is Twitter a cesspool? I interact mainly with WFH tech people who garden and I think it’s absolutely wonderful. There’s no reason to follow or interact with anyone who is negative.

Most people have a range of interests, and most interests have a range of people. If you follow people you'll see stuff you don't like, and if you follow hashtags then as soon as they get popular they get hijacked by entryists. Plus the site is optimised for ragebait - that's the natural result of the emphasis on short posts and the algorithm that optimises for "engagement" - so even if you're following the right people and the right hashtags you'll still see the worst parts of them.

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