Can Twitter Alternatives Escape the Enshittification Trap?
Can Twitter Alternatives Escape the Enshittification Trap?
People have flocked to Bluesky and Threads. But the new platforms risk repeating a pattern that has caused social media giants to turn against their own users.
People have flocked to Bluesky and Threads. But the new platforms risk repeating a pattern that has caused social media giants to turn against their own users.
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Why are people talking about useless social networks and not the ones that actually matter?
Lets talk Github people. Can Github escape the enshittification trap? Because not even Sourceforge escaped enshittification... and Github is now owned by Microsoft.
Going with no, Github won't escape it because "enshittification" is just "monetization" to all of the corporations making those decisions.
Tbh the git app or protocol makes it so easy to get up and relocate.. and programmers in general are probably some of the most capable users of relocating that even if it were to happen many of them wouldn't care that much. It's a good portfolio site and decent for collaboration of many projects. Doesn't currently get in the way and provides good or better visibility for projects than gitlab or bitbucket. Till the visibility issue is resolved better by a competitor that offers something significantly better or github makes disastrous decisions then people will be happy at github. Regardless I don't think there would be much drama around moving homes if that day ever comes.
Agreed. Also social connections isn't the primary goal. In fact doing anything related to that would be weird in Github
if its for profit? prob not
Bluesky and Threads are perfect examples of "fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." I've got no sympathy for folks who will be blindsided when those platforms start squeezing them almost immediately.
There really needs to be a better examples and instructions to join mastodon / fediverse. I can see the confusion. Maybe just a default server specified by the primary developer
I feel like those were somewhat easy to find (but not explicitly stated).
- Lemmy.world for Lemmy
- Kbin.social for Kbin
- Mastodon.social for Mastodon
Once people are in there then we start talking up moving to and instance that fits their style. Kind of like picking a fighter character then picking a specialization at level 2. That's still a hard sell on Lemmy and Kbin where we don't have the account export/import/redirect tools that Mastodon has. I could see them coming pretty soon though.