I don’t understand why someone would choose threads over mastadon, where they could have all the dunking with none of the enshittening.

My favorites:

• Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History
• Behind the Bastards
• Radiolab
• Stuff you should know
• The Rest is History
• Nature Podcast

lol, lemmygrad.ml isn’t a kbin instance.

Kbin also has microblogging.

Edit: Reading comprehension failure, please reboot brain.

This sounds a bit like steem, (which appears to be mostly hindi and korean content now.) They tried a scheme where you essentially get crypto for upvotes and engagement.

I really like the fediverse, I’m on kbin and it feels like old reddit did, before it experienced its own Eternal September. The hardest part of switching over was deciding which instance to sign up for an account on, had to try some different servers before I settled on this one.

I will occasionally browse because Relay still works, but I stopped contributing content.

@ausiematt “Thanks, I hate it”

Most existing cryptocurrencies have no inherent value, they might make sense as a currency, but having a cell in a distributed spreadsheet assigned shouldn’t be considered a growth investment and it’s absurd how many treated it that way. The only way that sort of thing works is with an endless supply of greater fools, and evidently they ran out.

The only thing missing are the “under construction” GIFs.

You’re welcome! ;)

Inspiring? Elon Musk’s cost cutting strategy was he just decided not to pay people, not to pay his landlord, not to pay his janitors, not to pay his hosting companies, not to pay many Twitter employees, and not to bother following laws, because, presumably, “fuck you, I’m a billionaire.” If that’s inspiring to spez, I’m feeling really good about leaving his platform. Aaron Swartz must be spinning in his grave so fast we could generate power from it.

Occasionally it gives me a sensible chuckle.

You’re thinking like a r/maliciouscompliance mod, and I love it!

In the step between being good to their users and abusing their users, eternal September occurs. Early adopters tend to be curious and technically minded sorts of people, and the users that follow them, less so. Right now I’m enjoying that posts here tend to be more thoughtful and in good faith than what one usually finds on reddit.

I predict a lot of brigading to take over smaller subs by bad actors.

Revoking the API really felt like one of those, “pull-up the ladder,” moments. The API access and the choice of 3rd party UI’s it allowed seemed like part of Reddit’s initial community-focused strategy, a method to drive people there from other platforms by being more open and accessible by allowing people to experience it the way they wanted. Then, they stupidly pulled a Digg by revoking that with no way back.