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      I think it was a good alternative, but it not being federated nor able to create communities makes it a bit lame. I really liked it, but it’s hard to find interesting use for it when it doesn’t let you have the spaces or topics that you want to cover other than the already defined ones.

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        Yeah the lack of federation is a deal breaker for me. Nothing stopping it from going the way of reddit.

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          If you use a private website for your social media we just loop back to where we are right now in a few years. Even if it seems great now there will eventually be enshittification.

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          When someone asks me if I’m on facebook, I can say I’m on The Federation, has a nice ring to it

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          I don’t care if a SM service is federated, switching to another isn’t a big deal. I switched to Lemmy when I got annoyed at Reddit, and I just spent an hour or so shopping around for communities and was basically done with the move.

          On Reddit, I would delete and recreate my account every year or two for privacy, and that was more effort than switching to Lemmy.

          I’m sticking with Lemmy because it feels like Reddit but without a lot of the noise. The noise will come, and there’s a decent chance I’ll bail when it does, it just depends what kind of noise it is. I don’t link my accounts with other federated services because of privacy reasons.

          I’m actually thinking about building a lemmy alternative, and it will likely not be part of the fediverse. Maybe I’ll build a bridge at some point, but I really don’t see much value in ActivityPub. I’m more interested in decentralized services where the majority of content is stored and served by the device used to access the service (i.e. a handful of gateways to facilitate connections, and that’s it). With that kind of setup, federation with other services isn’t very important, since authentication can be separated from the service itself so you get the benefits of “one account everywhere” without actually needing services to communicate.

          Regardless, Lemmy solves my need for aggregated news and community discussion that Reddit did, and until that changes, I don’t plan on leaving.

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      Really hard to care about a niche social network like this if it isn’t federated, honestly. Far as I’m concerned it could go the exact same way as Hacker News or Reddit.

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        What happened to Hacker News? It doesn’t appear to have changed, though I haven’t used it in years. It was always a bit too techbro for me.

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          Same opinion I have of it, too techbro. Easier to avoid those circles on a federated site.

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            It’s literally the tech bro news site, though, by design. This criticism is ridiculous. YCombinator is the organization that funds so many Silicon Valley tech dreams.

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          Its still alive and well. Its generally less memey and focuses on a higher quality of discourse. Its a different environment that can still be fun but its definitely brainier. Nothing wrong with engaging intelligent people, it makes you smarter.

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          Some people (granted, I remember reading this on Reddit) consider Hacker News to be full of right wing chuds. I personally just found it to be pretty full of techbros and programmers who were weirdly up themselves the last few times I tried to use it. r/programmingcirclejerk was basically all Hacker News comments lol

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            I like HN for discovering new blogs, but the comments can be really weird and lots of people seemingly only read the headlines.

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            I like Hacker News for discussion about bleeding edge tech, but that’s about it. I don’t contribute anymore because I don’t see much point (plenty of high quality discussion by the time I get there).

            There’s certainly weird comments, but I understand where they’re coming from and can usually tune out the stuff I dislike. Then again, I’m probably politically/philosophically closer to that group than I am to the people here (I consider myself a libertarian paternalist [i.e. the book nudge], so a little left of the US Libertarian Party). But I spend most of my time here because the topics are more varied and the discussion often feels more authentic.