It's a chost about Reddit being a hollow shell of its former self and the struggle to find a news/article-based-alternative that isn't focused on anything but that, and that doesn't require one to dig through shit to find bits of interesting/relevant/industry news. If you wanna say 'thanks for the considerate read-more!', then in good faith I invite you to like this chost anyway - even have a sneaksypeek just to make sure I'm not breaking your trust and chosting bad things. Have a good day. <3
Reddit was one of those places where, with selective subreddit choice, and a wholly sensible personal stance on not bothering to read more than a few comments deep on anything outside of checking for any attempted community verification, it was better than people generally said. So much better. It was useful.
Now? Now that the news cycle has stopped spinning on about the Changes To Reddit? The backslide in quantity and quality has been drastic. To the point where no amount of selective choice/limitation can bring to the surface things worth reading.
People have left. It will never recover from this, I think; it may linger a time, even after the IPO, but it's done. Like Twitter, I'm pretty sure the death knell date has already passed us by, and what remains is an animate corpse, with a scant crowd watching morbidly, waiting to see when reality sets in and it realises it's already dead.
Tildes isn't a replacement - it's focused on the discussion, where the interesting news part is mostly incidental. Which is fine. But I don't, uh, I don't do that. Much as I might try to comment on Cohost, I don't Engage With The Online Multitudes - everything I have seen and experienced leads me to believe it to be an entirely unhealthy practice for one's mind and body. I did not ever really use Reddit for discussion - aside from falling into the trap of online arguments - and lo, I've yet to comment or post a single thing on Tildes.
I come to Cohost more now because, despite giving me no greater knowledge of things happening in the world that I actually want to know about (y'know, good news, interesting news, things with which I want to voluntarily spend my time), I just... Enjoy my time here more. It's earnest, both in heart and shitposting, and doesn't get caught up in its own shit for long enough to matter.
Reddit has decayed to the point where it feels no different to any other News Site. Filled with trash and garbage fit only for an incinerator at times, with a diamond in the rough every now and then - the exact feeling whenever I go to a Polygon or a Kotaku or even a Rock Paper Shotgun - foaming over the lip of their vessels with Dark Patterns and Precious Little Good To Read.
I want to set up an RSS feed, but... That needs good sources, of which there are precious few that aren't also buoying themselves with shit content.
If you have any ideas or suggestions or commisserations or mutual expressions of emotion, I invite your comment. <3
Web 2.0 Is Dying. Web 4.0 Is Struggling To Be Born. Now Is The Time Of Fuck It I Guess I'll Do Something Else.
Thanks for reading. Love you. <3