The best possibility is something like I’ve done. I split my social media time between here, Reddit, Facebook, Threads, and a Mastodon instance that doesn’t federate (in addition to being a viewer on YouTube & PeerTube). You can’t hold all the people all the time. It’s just not feasible. So yes, people going back to Reddit is expected. But it’s when they come back and find something they want that’s important.
I’m going to present the opposite opinion to yours here. Kbin represents the best way forward for social media, to me. If we can get a working PeerTube integration after Threads federates, I’m all set. It’s what Google Plus was supposed to be, it’s why I first (as a user) used TweetDeck back in the day. It puts everything in one place again. I was a LiveJournal user back in the day, which was another place like this - communication & community, but individual places for your thoughts. I tried Tumblr for a while and it was close to an LJ replacement.
Everything since then has fractured and fragmented so we have very aggressive echo chambers, but no private places. This might be able to give that back to the users.
I accept that it can feel like drinking from the firehose at the start. It was to me at first too, but I was aware of Lemmy early on, and I was on two Mastodon instances that didn’t cofederate. I knew what I was going in for. I stepped back from Kbin when a known tech issue degraded my experience, and it’s been fixed. I think the thing is that Kbin allows you to curate your own experience, rather than be tied into doing one thing or another all the time.
I think when Kbin is ready for prime time and when the major issues are fixed, there might be a need to look at the first-timer experience, maybe even a tutorial. Because it’s not a beginner focused interface. It’s meant for us who want it all back in one place, and accepted the burden of experience that means.
Because Threads presents an opportunity to grow the community on ActivityPub services, and because the Fediverse presents the opportunity to extend the community I’m involved in that’s on Threads right now. My hope is that if that group respects what the Fediverse offers, they will also start sharing the podcast on PeerTube
My hand is raised.
When the shoe fits, start wearing it. PRC is an authoritarian state led by a dictator and his cronies.
Preventing this issue doesn’t seem like a userscript issue (though that’s definitely a good start).I think the auto report function is severely needed; it’s happening everywhere. If the script can automatically block any user whose post it suppresses, it would be awesome.
But I think the issue is that we need to get support top-down on this.