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Another social media site which followed the enshittification paradigm. This playbook has played out so many times until now. Start it with “good intentions” as a for-profit startup. People join and volunteer their time because the founders say all the right things and the site culture is so new and exciting. Once the site gets popular though, all the fancy talk from the founders goes out the window.

When will people learn this lesson. Don’t ever volunteer your time on a for-profit proprietary social network. You will get rugpulled!

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CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
We could call it Fedora!

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- ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Cute, but already taken by the OS.
  
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  - ChrisLicht@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    ThatWasTheJoke.heic
    
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    CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That .heic made my eye twitch. Reminded me of my coworkers at work not being able to open a photo they took on their iPhone, and that they want to use on the intranet
    
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- VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Haha well played
  
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abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Would be interesting to get a fediverse version of Quora

A Fediverse version of Stack Exchange would be easier - since the content is creative commons you could start with the full archive of questions.

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corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Volunteer your time, but do it with your eyes open.

If you’re okay with how it’s going to end up, it’s all good.

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linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You mean like /c/asklemmy or /c/nostupidquestions?

I think we just need more biomass.

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captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You mean like c/asklemmy?

I think Reddit almost had it for awhile. There was a point when stuff like r/askhistorians and the like actually worked, and you’d get fairly good answers. That’s one place where the Fediverse isn’t up to speed yet, for that sort of thing you need a critical mass of “everybody uses it” to really achieve.

So far Lemmy is at its best in the hobby subs because three people with the same hobby will still have fun talking, but if I say “nutritional anthropologists of Lemmy: when and where did humans begin eating cheese?” it’s gonna be crickets because there’s probably not a nutritional anthropologist to be found among us.

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