It does indeed look like the social media landscape is fracturing into separate tribes. Whether this is good, who knows.
One quote from the article is this: “X for the rightwing and the raging; centrists and policy nerds on Bluesky; people who hate politics on Threads or Instagram; Gen Z on TikTok; boomers on Facebook”.
What does that make us on lemmy? Not even an honorable mention. I guess we really are a fringe social media group.
Which is a good fucking thing. What’s the first rule of the fediverse? We don’t talk about the fediverse.
I see Lemmy and other fediverse platforms as pioneers for desentralized web which is still in its early stages. There are still problems to be solved and likely bunch of things that should be streamlined before bringing in the masses but there’s a lot of potential in desentralization even beyond social media.
And if X for the rightwing and raging - then what the hell is truth social?
Truth social is far far right-wing. X is just regular right wing ragebate now.
We are still building a strong foundation here. Our day will come.
People who love or tolerate left populism.
Well, Lemmy isn’t really in the running since it’s a link aggregator, and not a microblogging platform.
But that said, it would be nice to see Fediverse platforms mentioned. Mastodon and dozens of adjacent platforms exist, too, but never see a mention in any articles.
I really wish somebody could get a decent, populated Misskey instance spun up. I think that would be more attractive to people, due to the features more closely resembling those on Twitter than Mastodon’s do. It seems to be doing pretty well in Japan, not sure why we haven’t picked up on it as heavily in the west.
For what it’s worth, they didn’t mention Reddit either
Or mastodon. But estabilished news media sites never mention non-VC backed solutions if they can help it.