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The decentralized web is growing (jlai.lu)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, no. The deaths of those websites have not happened yet, and when they do, the Fediverse will not be the one holding the scythe

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, FB was killed by the younger people abandoning it for other SM. Twitter was killed by Musk. Reddit was killed by Spez.

And by "killed", I mean "lost some users and content quality". They still have millions of active users.

And my personal feed on Reddit is pretty much unchanged. Very few niche subreddits went into an extended blackout, so I still got all my content. And since I use the mobile website (FF+uBlock), the API change didn't affect me that much. But I hope more communities from Reddit will move over here, especially the non-tech ones.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's SM? Smash Mouth?

Pretty sure FB is still very much alive. Most people still use it for either Instagram, Messenger or Marketplace.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Hey now

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

SocialMedia ;)

I think FB and Instagram should be considered seperated although both owned by Meta. Anecdotally the people around me aged 20-30 only ever use FB for local groups and marketplace but not in it's original capacity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

A fair few niche subreddits did, at least FOSS, privacy, piracy, etc. Subs

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

FF+uBlock?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Firefox (presumably the mobile version) + uBlock Origin, an adblocker.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Probably means Firefox with the uBlock ad blockers browser extension.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It means Firefox with uBlock extension

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

On Android you can use Firefox with uBlock origin (ad blocker) extension

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Right, it'll be death by suicides.

Google should probably be on there too. Can't find anything either non-corporate or irrelevant these days.

I was looking for js libraries that extended the ecma array prototypes, Google gave me a billion pages about how to use the ecma array prototypes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can recommend Kagi. Yes, it'll cost you to use it (but not a lot, eg. I'm on the $10/month plan), but people expecting to get everything for free online is what got us into this mess in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I'll check it out!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I guess you missed the first 10 pages of ads. /s