May question ako, after the whole abandoning of this community.. Is there any hope for any move outside of the main social medias?
Intro
I've thought about this, since I've been exploring Mastodon, Bluesky vs Twitter/X.. Nostr. Any move outside of the main three, Facebook, Twitter/X, and Reddit.. fizzles out like this one. While there still remains somewhat of a community, such as the more popular communities in this fediverse.. I wonder what's the hope of switching away from the dominant socmeds if there is no homegrown movement here. I mean, look at me, I very rarely post, and look at Lemmy since any important info is almost always in reddit due to search..
Reflection
Don't get me wrong.. We all have lives outside of social media, (~~especially me~~), it's just.. very hard to come back and look at the multiple of dead communities, knowing you don't really have much to contribute. Like look at the many news posts, and random discussions.. Somebody has to take charge, and it's not going to be me.. I have so many things to do. My point is, there is low hope for any alt socmeds to reliably grow, if either the people that moved just.. move on from being chronically online or go back (to the big three), due to a multitude of reasons.
Conclusion
I think I'm just exhausted with my life, and that has permeated with my internet usage too. There's too many negative videos/posts that I have viewed, but there is much regret and procrastination outside. In conclusion..? I rambled for three paragraphs about Lemmy and the Fediverse, The Big Tech Social Medias, and the Philippines / Internet Culture..
Hope ya got something out of it!
What separates Lemmy and Reddit is that you don't have to overthink what you post, lol. I can just say what I want and not worry about adding receipts to whatever I say, whether I got my facts right, or do I come off bad. If edits need to be made, you can go back later in the day when you're free because no one would be reading it until after a week anyway LMAO. I believe there are also logs that allow others to check what you edited. So while commenting here interrupts work, it doesn't take more than a few minutes to do unlike in Reddit when it would literally take half an hour or so.
This is what made me such a lurker, and it's hard to unlearn that habit. Even after abandoning Reddit during the protests (never been back, except for some tech-related searching), I still dread seeing a reply to a post or comment I made.
Did I say something wrong? Did I piss off someone? Did I not know a "very well known fact that everyone should have known and you're a terrible person for not making an effort to be an expert in this niche thing"? Should I have made more research into a reply/post/whatever? What if I've been banned for making a post that is "not fit for the community/subreddit"? Lots of questions and even more fear.
To be fair, it's not just Reddit that inculcated that thinking to me. The infamous adage "Lurk Moar" has been seared into my mind. It's going to take quite an amount of reprogramming to fully erase that.
EDIT:
Proofreading, word choices.
Oh, yeah. I guess that mindset of lurking even if it costs little to reply and share your thoughts is what got me scared of posting / commenting.
Maybe I was just afraid of people more back then, haha.
Ah, interesting. I don't even post most of the time anyway, or comment, especially on Reddit (don't want to give that website more traffic than I already do).
I guess I don't have as much appreciation in how chill it is here, compared to reddit. Yeah, the smaller community makes connections here more interesting, and manageable too, as it doesn't blow up to like an entire community worth if you share a bad take since.. barely anyone's here anyway haha~
I guess it's just one of those symptoms of reddit that was alleviated in lemmy..