I used to spend a lot of time on IRC back in the day. The only thing stopping me from using now, is I can’t find a decent IRC client for iPad. The big problem was around multitasking. I would say switch over to my mail app to read a message that just came in, and when I would switch back to the IRC app I would find myself disconnected from the server.
I do remember reading about a web based IRC client that would solve that problem. I was going to set it up in my home server, then got busy and forgot its name.
IMHO one of the biggest mistakes made early on in the development of the Internet is that everything should be free and ad supported. That is how we ended up social media that is destroying our socitey in the name of driving up engagement and thus ad revenue. I think things would have been much better if every one was just expected to pay a few bucks a month for the services they use.
I’m new to the fediverse. My biggest gripe about big social media, is that the signal to noise ratio (SNR) is very low. My hope is that since this isn’t a solution for the folks you mentioned, that the SNR will be much higher here.
What are the best fediverse alternative to the big sites on the web?
I know I've made the jump to Mastodon, and now lemmy. But what are the other sites that I'm missing out on?
Reddit CEO Admits "we are not profitable" right before upcoming IPO (old.reddit.com)
How do you address the concerns of users who feel that Reddit has become increasingly profit-driven and less focused on community engagement?...
Summary of Reddit CEO u/spez' responses (old.reddit.com)
They're getting voted into oblivion on the AMA, but u/ChariotWheel is helpfully cut-and-pasting and formatting them here.
do you think the fediverse could replace popular social media
At the moment the internet is flawed, do you think the fediverse is the solution?