CountChonkula

I left and deleted my account after Elon changed the algorithm to show nothing but his posts. With this decision and the many other bad decisions he’s made since buying Twitter, I’m glad I left and I frankly don’t miss it.

This will absolutely be abused and people will be harassed, but I feel this is intentional as he continues turning Twitter into a far-right echo chamber.

I’m all for trying to find ways to cut down on e-waste, but I don’t think this is it and it being water soluble could potentially shorten lifespan of devices because they could unintentionally disintegrate when it comes in contact with water.

This also doesn’t really fix the problem if electronics end up in a landfill as there’s still plastic, glass and batteries that’ll sit there plus lead is still a problem if it does use lead solder.

At best, it only helps if a device is properly recycled and it doesn’t really do much if it isn’t. The best solution is still to not needlessly buy new devices and use what you have for a bit longer and companies should support their devices longer. I doubt the latter will happen though because pretty much every company will favor profits over the environment and they’ll continue to greenwash to say how they’re carbon neutral. Unless you go with something super cheap, most smartphones should easily last 5+ years and then not providing software or security updates after a couple of years is purely a business decision.

I deleted my account after 8 and a half years after the API changes took affect and since then, I haven’t really missed it. Besides the API changes, the other decisions the admins have made shows that either they’re intentionally trying to run Reddit into the ground or they’re incredibly incompetent. Regardless, Reddit has shown it’s a platform I no longer want to be a part of.

Lemmy and kbin are still very much in their infancy while Reddit has been around for nearly 20 years. There’s definitely going to be growing pains since it’s still so new and for right now at least most people that are going to join are people that are leaving Reddit so it’s probably going to remain a fairly niche thing at least in the short term.

Secondly, I don’t think they have to necessarily replace Reddit and they both could go on and do their own things. Honestly, even during my time on Reddit I found the smaller communities were better than large or default communities IMO. I just find that smaller communities have better engagement where ones that are too big your post or comment will end up getting buried.

Even if Lemmy or kbin don’t overtake Reddit, I think there’s still a place for them.