I know some of you read the news of API pricing changes, and it potential effect on the community itself. The effect would be a slow and diminished quality of the community itself, and that may or may not have an advert effect on the places to share news about open-source software.
There is some few alternatives like lemmy.world or kbin. I would recommend lemmy as it’s the one that’s pretty much the closest alternative.
On other news, for those who still is using Twitter, note that there has been some issues recently. I would move on to Mastodon.
I started a G’MIC community on lemmy world here - https://lemmy.world/c/gmic . There’s gmic at mastodon too.
It’s a huge bummer. I was not a big user of Twitter, so that was mostly a fun train wreck to watch from the sidelines. Reddit hits much closer to home for me.
Some subreddits are already entirely offline or stopped. Others are strongly diminished. It is a terrible shame. So much great content, flushed down the drain by idiot pencil-pushers.
There will no doubt be a successor before too long, although I’m doubtful it will be any better. And it probably won’t be lemmy, I’d guess.
The huge issue with Matrix/IRC/Lemmy/Discord is that they are not web-searchable. Reddit and Twitter show up in search results, and thus are useful to non-users, Matrix/IRC/Lemmy/Discord do not.
Perhaps that’s their problem: being useful to people who do not participate, and do not provide value.
But I don’t want to live in a world where all information lives in opaque silos.
Yes. I think it is lack of content why it doesn’t come up in searches (for now).
I find that every time and irc log comes up in an obscure search result for me personnaly, it is not helpful. I’m OK with matrix/irc not being super duper indexed. Getting help live is useful.
I don’t know how long this will be true for Twitter… And even if Google & Twitter have an agreement, what good is it to index something that you cannot access without a login?