I am leaving the fediverse by tomorrow because it is not what I imagined it would be. Spez killed reddit’s soul, not just it’s original spirit. The fediverse is a sham and a political soapbox writ large, it will never support a true community like reddit used to unless that community is one with a heavy political relevance.
I never used a forum account, I play and I use mods but I don’t create mods due to difficulty understanding computers’ “behind the scenes” stuff. I appreciate FOSS because that also extends to Web³ crypto contracts and to digital footprints, but unlike with OpenTTD (the game, not my account), I do not believe the fediverse will ever be a good place to communicate without being stressed by social shit.
My intent to make this community a prime spot for fediverse discussion of the game has failed in favor of the Dutch and Canadian communities, and I no longer feel motivated to keep going, so I think this is goodbye. You probably won’t see me around, I don’t plan to stop lurking anywhere else, as I cannot use my Apple ID (banned years ago because someone who I no longer associate with keylogged my PC, I’ve been wary of online services that are “free to use with purchases available” ever since as I had to cancel my credit card) and do not trust Google either, making it necessary to do everything on a laptop or not at all. It’s fine by me but means I do not use my email address and have given up trying to have user accounts anywhere.
Thank you for your time, I wish I could have done more. If you’re interested, I can transfer ownership to anyone who is in good standing with the OpenTTD community, but proof of login will be needed. Fair warning, you’re going to get a lot of “I fear the government” guys, and though I am anticapitalist I am not the kind of person who enjoys outrage porn and I feel the internet needs to be reimagined, not just rebuilt, which is why I am leaving. Don’t worry, I usually play this game alone and it holds a special place in my heart. Bye.
I felt the same. Fortunately my first experience on the Fediverse was on Kbin.social - where those were already blocked for me, so I got a sense already of what the Fediverse could be, without them - but when Kbin.social virtually stopped working and nobody had heard from its owner Ernst for weeks at a time I gave up on it and shifted to Lemmy. Which was HORRIBLE, until v0.19 allowed me to block lemmygrad and hexbear.
For anyone wondering how (these directions are for the webpage version, desktop or mobile I think): go into your “Settings” (not Profile), click Blocks on the right tab, scroll WAAAAAAAAAY down (at least for me it’s a long scroll b/c I’ve blocked a ton of individual communities as well), and type in the name of each instance you want to block. So lemmygrad.ml, and hexbear.net, and whatever else you want. I put up with lemmy.ml for the memes it brings - but yeah, most of the time when someone retorts with the most child-like attitudes, it is them:-).
The Fediverse is more wild frontier territory right now - on Reddit daddy spez “takes care of you”, and ngl it’s a fairly high-end experience, one which we cannot begin to replicate right now, from the technical standpoint. Then again, I will never ever go back: there just isn’t anyone that I want to talk to there (“and my axe”, “I also choose this guy’s wife”, and so on leave little room for anything else, especially if it deviates one single iota from the Group-Think), whereas here I sometimes find more quality conversations that seem worth my time.
Yep, 100% with you on that. And most of the communities I’ve blocked are there as well. Unfortunately they were one of the first instances to go live (if not the first), so a lot of normal communities opened up shop there, and alternatives on other instances have maybe 10% of the activity, so I have to put up with them for the time being.
There are a bunch of other instances I’ve blocked, like midwest.social and nfl.social, but that’s simply because they are only hosting communities for local towns and sports teams, which I couldn’t care less about.
I found blocking hexbear (my instance is not federated with Lemmygrad) and then blocking individual trolls has been very effective. My blocklist is pretty short so its surprisingly effective
Midwest.social has The Onion and Lord of the Memes, another Memes community (~1 post per day) and so on. That may not be a ton of content but it’s something so I leave it.
Also people may choose a server based on geographic proximity for low ping, so there is whatever future content they may add as well. I tend to never run into those individual-city communities even on All, and when I do I block them. I gotta admit that I am conflicted about that and might do differently one day, especially as the sort algorithms improve - like perhaps I should switch from Subscribed for the stuff I really want, then All for things that I normally would not be exposed to like what’s going on in Sydney Australia (to pick one example!:-P). But I can always get that by logging out, and right now using All already offers a wider experience, without having to see every other post be for sports.:-D