• Dark_Blade@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Is Tildes really ‘competing’? The invite-based signup obviously invites the most dedicated and ‘quality’ individuals, but I don’t see how that’s gonna help with critical mass.

    As for Squabbles, I’m suspicious of yet another centralized platform. Honestly, I’m just sorta ‘done’ trusting wannabe billionaires.

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      1 year ago

      All three are quite different, which actually makes following their respective growth more interesting to me.

      I suppose it’s fair that Tildes is not truly “competing” since they’re invite-only. I don’t have an account there but I’ve heard they want to focus on long-form high effort posts, so it’s never going to be real competition on terms of size, though it will be interesting to see whether a site with that profile can grow enough to thrive.

      I’m not a fan of Squabbles personally but some people obviously are since they’re at 30k users soon. It’s run by a single person, and I am a little worried about whether that persons individual preferences influence development too much and in general the way development is heading. I don’t like the layout and I think the logo and name are a hindrance in terms of mass adoption.

      On a larger scale though, Squabbles doesn’t allow any NSFW, and that is the benchmark I’m most interested in. Can a site of this nature reach critical mass without it?

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I’m glad I’m not really the only one who feels this way. I mean the most important part of a “social” media network is to have people on it. Also I can’t really see anything that tildes has that Lemmy doesn’t. I might be missing something, but it seems pretty inferior. But as for the centrallised platforms; yeah I’m pretty done too.