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I mean looks around
Are we invisible?
Hello! Fediverse over here!
Community maintained!
Fresh memes!
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Come and get it!
Fresh memes!
My theory is that the primary reason why the fediverse isn't more popular with young people is cultural. For instance, I don't think anyone in generation z would use the term "fresh memes" :)
But yeah I also think that tumblr has a nostalgia advantage. It represents the internet before it "turned bad", while the fediverse represents a possible future for the internet. Both have different appeals, but I think that nostalgia wins out for a lot of people.
It's funny because, while not a 1-for-1 cultural fit, Mastodon's site structure has felt much closer to Tumblr's. I feel like the reason Twitter people keep saying Mastodon's insufficient (while, eventually, flocking to BlueSky) is that BlueSky offers a more similar UX, in terms of shunting you along algorithmically. I don't think there's any issue with Mastodon's UI (other than maybe PixelFed, I think it's the closest Fediverse project to other mainstream social media UI) but I suspect the UX isn't quite right for people expecting Twitter.
However, I, as a Tumblr transplant, felt right at home.
I don't know that it's the "algorithms": a lot of people just use their following feed on twitter and although it changed a while back that was the default feed on bluesky for a long time. I think that there is a fairly large portion of bluesky users who mostly just look at following and still don't really like mastodon.
Imo, a big reason why bluesky has been a more successful twitter competitor than mastodon is cultural: mastodon has been around for years before musk bought twitter, and a big selling point was that it wasn't like twitter, for example that its "less toxic". A large part of mastodons userbase never liked pre-musk twitter that much and will tell you of for acting like you would there. Bluesky on the other hand has a large portion of users who liked pre-musk twitter and are happy to follow pretty similar social norms as they did in pre-musk twitter.
This is to some extent reflected in the functions of the different sites as well, for example you can't quote retweet on mastodon which iirc is deliberate because qrt dunking is "toxic". Bluesky has quote retweets (although they allow you to untag yourself from a qrt).
I think it does too, but the problem with nostalgia is that you forget about all the shitty parts and just remember the good bits. Tumblr is still owned by big tech oligarchs even if it is smaller than the other platforms, and is still vulnerable to the kind of enshittification that the fediverse is more insulated against. Enshittification actually came for Tumblr long ago but it looks positively tame in comparison with other platforms.
Yeah I agree, I think looking towards the future is a better idea in general. I'm on lemmy but not tumblr myself
i've been there since david karp. you can take tumblr from my cold hands.
Tumblr is owned by Automattic.
The WordPress plug-in company?
The WordPress company, as in the developers of WordPress itself.
Yeah, the one with the lawsuits involved and blocking plugins and such. Search for Mullenweg.
Been out of the WordPress dev scene for about 10 years. Didn't know they got so big
A large percentage of the internet runs on wordpress
Still? Cool
I’m wondering how Tumblr is a safe space while it’s still filled with porn-bots. I tried the platform several times and no matter what I do, I always get smacked with some random NSFW content.
I get spammed on Lemmy each week by "Nicole the Fediverse chic from Poland". Each time from a different instance.
I hope she isn't the start of the end.
Nah, there's always going to be bots in any public network, it's normal, should be fought and all but there's always adversarial individuals, we definitely should find who's this Nicole person and get them to stop this crap, but you'd be surprised how NORMAL it is to have anything on the public internet under constant, 24/7 attack
She/it is the only spammer I have encountered here. Would have thought it would be easy to block because each time is almost an identical message..
Beehaw has a manual approval process at least which must weed such spammers from signing up... yet allows them into my inbox despite my reports.
Majority of tumblr nsfw seems like some kind of black and white artsy erotica made by touch starved girl nerds so what’s not safe about it
I left every single western social network because they’re all filled to the brim with angry, asshole people. America has a ton of miserable people that will go out of their way to be rude to others on every social network. I’m sick of that energy.
If it’s not rude people, it’s ad after ad.
The only things I use now are Xiaohongshu (Rednote) and Lemmy (my own instance).
This comment is going to piss just about everyone off, but tik tok was actually amazing for the couple hours America was banned. That's not an endorsement of tik tok just an observation.
Funny enough, this is why I’ve enjoyed Rednote a ton. I’ve found that a lot of western folks are there as a reprieve from how insanely volatile Meta and other platforms have gotten. It’s a different vibe and the platform was specifically built for people to learn and grow together. The audience there very much strives to keep a good vibe and will call out anyone that tries to disrupt that.
Besides a bit of the fediverse, I’m back at reading blogs via RSS. I’ve never stopped using RSS and it’s just so nice.
I used to have a really robust RSS feed but lost it when the service I was using changed. Need to rebuild that.
It's even more fun when the angry asshole people are mods on the platform!
See: reddit
Based instance name.
Thanks! Never thought I’d own a domain with “yachts” in it.
The people's version of owning yachts
It’s the closest I’ll ever get.