Look, I love the fediverse but I am realistic in that for the forseeable future it will 100% be the Linux of social networks, with everything that implies.
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Look, I love the fediverse but I am realistic in that for the forseeable future it will 100% be the Linux of social networks, with everything that implies.
And the reason I am here and not on bsky or threads is not because I think it's somehow better or more virtuous (in many ways, it's worse!) or because I think this place is any less likely to collapse or turn to shit than any other social network I've ever been on.
It's because all the other platforms are really bad for my mental health
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@tess Same. I'm largely here *because* it's the Linux of social networks, and because all the others make me miserable.
(If at some point fedi makes me miserable too, I'll go back to closed chat rooms and email penpals.)
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@datarama @tess Agreed, I'm here because it's the Linux of social networks. I was never on Twitter and would never touch a property controlled by Zuckerberg.
It does mean, as has already been pointed out, that it possesses a lot of the same strengths and weaknesses of Linux. But I've been a Linux user in my personal life for a decade and a half, so I guess it's my bag at this point.
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@OldFartPhil @tess I was on Facebook for years, but ... well, it made me miserable. Now I have an empty account I only use for Messenger, because that's the only way I have to keep in touch with some of my family members. (Which is pretty sad, really.)
Between killing my old Facebook account and starting on fedi I spent about a year reverting my internet social life to what it was like in the mid-90s: Closed chats and email penpals. It was a lot more tranquil.
