As the content trends towards “mostly porn” I think you’re going to see the lurker ratio go up. Especially from people who worry that lolis might be legal trouble in their jurisdiction, or have simply been on reddit so much they assume whatever gets banned on reddit MUST be able to get them in trouble somehow (surprisingly common and disturbing opinion with regard to the younger generations views on free speech).
Saw a guy on reddit just the other day say signing up is too hard lol. I’m not sure what stopped him.
I respect you for not putting stuff that has a political slant (such that there are necessarily two sides, and someone “lost”) into “good news”. Reddit uplifting news was really bad about that lol.
I was trying to figure out which lemmy instance to call home and browsed the instances list on lemmy.world. I think at the time this was the sole defederated instance and I had to see why lol
What’s even legal in britbong land? I think they tried to outlaw anything equally or more kinky as “girl on top” for a hot minute before there was a big backlash. I have no idea what their “obscenity” laws are now.
God, I remember when Discord blew up and basically destroyed Teamspeak and Mumble overnight. I didnt think teamspeak was lacking ease of use, but I was wrong. It was really big on MMOs. Being able to go straight in your browser and type “discord.gg/guildname” without downloading anything got people who NEVER used voice chat on to servers. Everybody eventually downloaded the desktop version later, but many of those people would never download desktop IRC/teamspeak and remember an IP address.
Of course it also helped that it was free to host 24/7 with zero tech knowledge, so any moron could host without needing to pay for a server or leave their computer on for it to stay up. But even people who could host quickly moved to discord.
Now Discord owns basically everyone’s gaming chat and can moderate your server whether you like it or not, compared to if you had a server on your computer nothing could take it down except actually getting the police on your ass.
They’re going to start trying to really profit off it soon, and it’s going to get a lot worse.