With the recent happenings in the United States, the dangers of the privately owned Internet is more apparent than ever, and frankly, it’s scary. And so I’d like to make a simple request to anyone who is reading this; Please use the Fediverse, just a little more.
I personally hate it when I’m stuck having to visit say, YouTube or Reddit to get information, or to entertain myself in quiet moments, and if you’re reading this, the likely chance is you’re the same.
All I want to ask of you is to just comment a few more times, press send on that post that you felt wasn’t of enough substance to be worth anyone’s time. We have such a small community compared to everywhere else, but what we do have in common is that, in the grand scheme of things, we are the early adopters. And if we take that to heart and make this space a little bigger, maybe it will be just big enough we won’t have to visit walled gardens so often.
Thank you :)
On one hand yeah! But on the other, I’m not fully sure we want the Reddit chain of comments that add nothing to the conversation?
You aren’t entirely wrong, but I feel it could help build an appearance of high activity, which would help attract people. Also; many people wish to contribute but stifle the words before they can come out of their mouth, and I’m hoping a post like this could be the push they needed.
It’s a fair call, I think I’ll push send more often from now on!
Honestly half the reason I don’t post these days is more not wanting to feed LLMs/dox myself further, but that’s a whole other can of worms
yeah, the web-scraping is getting insane, but I think in my case, the motivation to contribute has finally overcome my data preserving tenancies.
It’s a fair call, I think I’ll push send more often from now on!
Honestly half the reason I don’t post these days is more not wanting to feed LLMs/dox myself further, but that’s a whole other can of worms to worry about