Don’t forget to bring a towel!

Only replies to the original post will ever be at the top.

“Break the loop and you break the chains.”

Nobody actually said that to my knowledge but putting quotes around it lends some legitimacy. 

A single character emoji could easily be a typo as well.

Everything is an opportunity cost. That is, if you’re engaging in YouTube you are missing out on something else. It’s fine if that’s the choice you want to make, but understand that you’re “missing out” on hanging out with friends or reading or video games or calling a family member.

The doomscroll is all there is. The good news about that is that anyone can emulate it.

What got replaced already was the oligopoly on user-created content. That’s all that matters.

It doesn’t need to replace anything, that’s a sports mentality applied to the free flow of information. What this decade has taught us is that the doomscroll is all there is. Reddit, Tiktok, Twitter, etc. all have constant scrolling through content as their main feature. It’s a feature that’s extremely reproducible. What the fediverse does is take power away from the corporations that want to make money off of the flow of user-created content. By the fediverse’s existence, whenever some company wants to rate-limit or ban 3rd party apps, the people can now just say: “Nah.”

This is like asking someone to check in on your ex, sure it sounds like a good idea, but…

I used this site when migrating https://sub.rehab/

Shows where old Reddit subs relocated to or branched out to.