No small feat to become a top 5 hated person on the Internet for a day. Well done Internet Brands exec team.
Honestly the worst name though…
Caryn like Karen?
Marjorie like Marjorie Taylor Green.. the Karen-iest Karen to ever Karen?
Awful awful awful.
It’s a microblogging service (similar to Twitter), ran by a small dev team and backed by Jack Dorsey (of Twitter origin). It’s been in “invite-only” closed beta forever so it has never really gone super mainstream. Some communities have kinda made their way over there but for the most part it seems threads and mastodon will run away with things in terms of being heirs to Twitter (imo). Bluesky is building their own platform (AT) that will allow others to stand up their own “bluesky” instances that federate with each other, similar to how mastodon works on the Fediverse with ActivityPub. Not sure what the progress is with that but am skeptical it will ever actually be a popular choice given the success of AP/Fediverse and the fact that threads and other large platforms (Wordpress, Tumblr, etc…) have already implemented or committed to building in AP support.
I am a pretty heavy “Fediverse user” (Mastodon + Lemmy/Kbin) and my feeds have VERY little Linux talk. There is an incredibly diverse set of folks on the ‘verse but admittedly discoverability is hard. If the only people in your circle are Linux nerds then that’s all that might be boosted into your timeline. Put some effort into finding other folks and unfollow some of the Linux-only voices :-).
His friends kept telling him to stop being a square…
Not sure what you mean by “reputation”. But generally I think it’s hard for anyone to like their Dentist visit. Even a “checkup” typically involves a cleaning which is invasive and uncomfortable. This is compounded by the fact that people don’t take care of their teeth so feedback from dentists is almost always poor. I don’t think Dentists have a bad rep, but I can safely say I don’t look forward to my visits 😅
Every time ive seen an article about worst state it’s always Mississippi :-/. But these days thanks to awful leadership Florida and Texas are making a case for the crown.
This is 100% true. That said, I bet most redditors had no idea this was happening. But as I think about it. I bet most sub mods did, they could have found spines… but like you said…
Twitter —> Mastodon Reddit —> Lemmy (and Kbin) Discord —> Matrix
It’s been a bit since I got an episode up but you could check my podcast - https://shellsharks.com/podcast. It’s tech / infosec-themed. I’m pretty sure I take a lot of jabs in the other direction haha.
Eh. Bad take imo. It might be failing this individual, or failing to be a clone of Twitter, but it’s certainly not this black and white. It’s experienced massive growth as has the larger fediverse (a success by one measure for sure). Will it capture significant market/mindshare compared to the big social networks? Maybe, maybe not. But this isn’t necessarily the “goal”. Meta has taken an interest, so clearly it has gotten the attention of one of the big dogs. Blue sky is a Twitter clone but has the promise of “federation”, which again you see signs of imitation (sincerest form of flattery right?). I don’t disagree with everything OP has to say. I do think the software, UX, and other aspects of Mastodon and other fediverse “things” could use some work but that’s the best thing, they’re being worked on! And faster than ever, especially as more of the big corps continue to enshittify and drive away their user base. To claim that Mastodon has “failed” or “is failing” is not only ridiculously premature but also imo missing the larger trends. For me, it has been a huge success and continues to get better.
China. Also, no one is saying FB is fine, but since it’s American then gov pretty much shrugs. It was FB after all feeding the NSA yeah?