rimlogger

There's room for all sorts of platforms. I still use Reddit and will continue to do so because a lot of niche communities don't plan to migrate over to Lemmy. Lemmy is good for more general discussions where you can always get a reply or see content posted but besides general topics/tech topics, but it seems like the crowd is a bit more technical/hacker-lite.

For example, I don't see a dating advice community on Lemmy yet.

People should develop a federated video hosting service. It will be expensive but I know the community can do it.

Do you know anything about the specific events that led up to the comintern’s degeneration or are you parroting liberal talking points?

I don't.

But ever since the rise of civilization (and the end of the most hunter gatherer societies), it is impossible to prevent the rise of a ruling class. Violent revolutions bring about some change but it's never going to change ape behavior or destroy the core of civilization, which is a class system. True equality will come only from people choosing not to participate in the system of civilization and making do in small communes.

Well I disagree with you vehemently, about 90% of the problems we’re facing is that almost every single problem we’re trying to address were sabotaged by the rich.

Why did they become rich in the first place and why do they not want to give up what they have?

Ape behavior. People in general loathe to give up resources and power once they have it.

We can cooperate and come up with a better future, it is something that we have to make an effort to.

Sure. But I don't think that's going to happen. Climate change is going to make mincement out of most of us before we even begin to scarcely acknowledge the problem.

That amount of time would basically give the common people enough time to go about fixing the political system.

Common people get fixated by the idea of someone else fixing their problems. It's why America had Trump for President for 4 years. He was going to "fix" America's problems.

You cannot defeat ape behavior. We are apes. We created civilization as a system to manage resources for large numbers of people that our hunter gatherer societies could not. Civilization by its nature creates a system of elites, because you need people at the top to manage resources.

If we want true equality and still stay true to our ape programming, we would be better served by a return to small interconnected communes.

The issue with revolutions is that while they tend to get rid of old elites, they create a new class of elites out of the top revolutionaries and the cycle just starts over again. Many communist revolutions were supposed to create these theoretically "equal" societies, but they just insert in a new ruling class.

People are mourning the loss of a platform. I think it's okay that a majority of Reddit alternatives are talking about its death (at least for them).

I still use Reddit but have been exploring alternatives.

That's fair. Everyone has a different way of doing things.

From your post, I don’t think you were really into internet forums. I was a part of several dozens forums, with tons of overlapping and also different discussions. I was sad when many of them slowly died as Reddit dominated niche communities. The current expression of the community-based fediverse such as Lemmy and Kbin are a return to form that I deeply missed. In the old days you could have an art subforum and the vibe of each art subforum was totally different, but shared the general themes of certain styles of art.

I was very much into Internet forums as a child and posted on quite a few. But I didn't go on any of the general discussion boards, I focused those on specific topics or niches. That is what's missing with the fediverse today. Everyone is trying to provide a Reddit alternative right now but forget what made Internet forums of old great - their singular focus on a particular topic, community, or subject.

No, this is worse than the old days. Back in the old days, forums were centered around specific groups and interests. All of the Reddit replacements are trying to replicate Reddit but without what makes Reddit actually the great: the mountain of archived content from over the years.

Instead of going back to the old days, what we got is a bunch of general discussion Internet forums.

Correct, you will need to create an account to view posts and interact with posts from those instances.

Geez, the concept of federation is already splintering. I understand you guys have your reasons but this just splinters the fediverse and makes it worse for users.