see, the thing that bothers me the most about articles like this is the pessimism and entitlement that comes with comparisons whining that platforms like Mastodon and Lemmy aren’t as mature and featureful as 15-20+ year-old, multi-billion-dollar platforms like reddit and twitter. like “how dare they not satisfy my every desire immediately!” these article also never another to mention that they’re only a few years old, both reddit and twitter were pretty basic when they were very young, and that mastadon and lemmy are developed by (mostly) community volunteers, are open-source, and, oh, yeah, totally free.
and what do they promote as alternatives? the same damned companies that they’re complaining killed the current social web by stifling open discussion and choking our feeds with ads and fees for use.
see, the thing that bothers me the most about articles like this is the pessimism and entitlement that comes with comparisons whining that platforms like Mastodon and Lemmy aren’t as mature and featureful as 15-20+ year-old, multi-billion-dollar platforms like reddit and twitter. like “how dare they not satisfy my every desire immediately!” these article also never another to mention that they’re only a few years old, both reddit and twitter were pretty basic when they were very young, and that mastadon and lemmy are developed by (mostly) community volunteers, are open-source, and, oh, yeah, totally free.
and what do they promote as alternatives? the same damned companies that they’re complaining killed the current social web by stifling open discussion and choking our feeds with ads and fees for use.