Thing is, it doesn’t have to be ready. It doesn’t have to have everyone here, just enough people to form a healthy community.
This is how it was in the olden days and it worked well.
If there is reddit with its gazillion users and the fediverse only has a few million that’s enough for me.
Enough to have interesting discussions and learn new things.
And who the f**** really cares about celebrities like Nicki Minaj etc.
I’d rather talk to the most unremarkable person I can find than those manufactured personalities.
Duolingo has been getting extra attention from me these days.
maybe, just maybe, develop some in-person relationships with the people in your immediate social circle/geographic area. it worked really well up until around 30 years ago.
A long way to say “go touch grass”
But yes, death of monolithic social media companies would be a good thing on many levels both individual, societal and political level. Especially the American social media media monopoly ending would be such a excellent thing. It has been as controlling over the world as the dollar or US military.
The Verge is full of it to be honest, overly long and intricate articles.
Feels like they swallowed a dictionary and get paid per word nowdays.
I think we may already be at the next oasis. It’s just the normal progression. People said similar things about AOL, MySpace, Friendster, LiveJournal, Delphi, CompuServe, etc. We’ll find new places to hang out. And then we’ll move on when they inevitably collapse.
It’s starting to feel like an oasis to me. The comments are generally friendly and helpful. Every day seems to bring more interesting posts than the previous one. I’m trying to do my part by posting and commenting more than I did on Reddit. This is nice.
