Link: https://ploum.net/2025-12-15-communication-entertainment.html

PMs are very much an afterthought...

What shits me most is that in the early months of the Reddit revolt was that people were organically posting topics of discussion and sharing personal original content. Then the bots came and posted clickbait articles dressed as news to drive clicks to the motherships of all these useless websites screaming for attention. It used to be your forum post would be locked if you only posted a link with no commentary or start of a discussion around what you were linking, the idea was to promote discussion, but that’s now gone and maybe the text on memes is the new version of that, I don’t know. Navigating away and filtering that is a daily process, but once you find that one or few communities and shut out the noise there are normal people living normal lives which is nice.

yeah I sorta assume at some point the fediverse will be such that you only need one account. I don't make any to be active with at the same time. I make ones generally when Im moving over.

On PieFed (and Mbin?) you can hide posts by the domain name that they link to. So if you're tired of cnn.com, block it and no matter who posts a link to it in any community you won't see those posts.

It'd be great if these communities got a bit more attention:

!actual_discussion@lemmy.ca

!politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world

!discuss@discuss.online

Yeah you can do that on mbin as well :)

I didn't know about these communities. Thanks for sharing. Could be posted to !communitypromo@lemmy.ca to get some more people to join.

To me, the very goal of interoperability is not to force you into creating multiple accounts. Big Monopolies have managed to convince people that they need one account on each platform.

I want to have multiple accounts, because I like different interfaces for differences services. I like the PeerTube app and web UI for watching and interacting with video content. I like the Mastodon app and web UI for microblogs. I like Voyager and the PieFed UI for threaded discussions and link sharing. It's always nice to see comments from Mastodon on PeerTube, or native PeerTube channels on PieFed. But that doesn't mean I need one account that does everything. It's good to have options.

What's up with him?

This is a really good read IMO, I recommend everyone to check it out.

(From memory:) Social media isn't communicating but Television 2.0...

Communications protocols are boring.

Yeah tell me that, I made one and it seems like it's the most boring thing ever, sigh.

yeah i read that, they argued that not showing all content would be "dishonest" of some social media platforms, and that's bad.

like, pixelfed only shows content from the fediverse that contains at least 1 image. everything else is just not shown. and that's "dishonest" because it does not accurately depict everything that the social media account actually posts.

thing is, the fediverse is what we make it, and we can make whatever the fuck we want with it, including filtering posts about whether they contain an image or not. and only showing posts that contain an image. if users want that type of system, it's possible to implement it.

yeah and also it's a good use case to use multiple accounts to keep things separated.

like, i have one account i use irl with people i know from irl. and one account i only use here on lemmy.