I can’t wait to be one of the “I was part of the great Reddit migration” dudes when this lemmy stuff inevitably goes tits up in 15 years.
RemindMe! 15 years.
Oh, right, ☹️
@remindme@mstdn.social 5 minutes look what fedi can do
Make your own bot. With black jack and hookers.
Y’know what, screw the bot.
@remindme@mstdn.social 15 years
Lemmy has been around for a while already, and is open source. It will go tits up like linux didn’t. Unless it get abandoned.
That’s gonna be me. I am a bandwagon boy
It’s decentralized though. That’s literally the reason I believe in the Fediverse
Easy. Ban every company.
YUPYUP
We have more control this time though… When the companies come, we can block them.
It’ll be a lot harder for them with federated software, and when the free instances are all solidly established
They can still infiltrate them by buying their way into the admin/s pokets since maintaining servers is expensive.
maintaining servers is a lot more affordable when your website isn’t bloated with tracking and unnecessary features. It’s not realistic for a corporation to buy up a significant chunk of the fediverse anyways
Yeah anyone who thinks activityPub is immune to monetization is delusional.
That’s why we need to abolish private ownership, all corporations must be collectively owned by the community.
Communism intensifies
Wait isn’t the fediverse explicitly about private ownership?
Yeah I hate how my personal site on my personal servers is always in mark zuckerbergs hands. Wait what was the question?
Don’t be surprised if corporations bought out instances or whole development teams. Good thing new Inatances can be launched and the community can always fork the code and continue work.
instances collectively agreeing to defederate from corporate ones is what will stop them
I hate to say it, but the vibe has gotten a lot more Reddit-y over the last couple months. Lemmy used to be a lot more controversial, and not afraid to show it
I kind of like that tbh. I have identified as an anarchist/communist for over 25 years and even I thought the content at Lemmy was too much of a downer to be around too much.
The point is not the content per se, the point is nobody has any other incentive than to have a good time and share. Instead of the basic human desire to be social constantly being exploited for shiny fucking coins by robots and or psychopaths.
You pick the communities you like. Diversity is key.
I’m not sure if it’s brigading or if reddit was just better at hiding them, but I’m seeing a lot of alt-right, fuck-the-libs hate. Any of the current posts about the student loan forgiveness for example. So so many bad faith, tone-deaf arguments of “why should I pay for your loans” or “those lazy deadbeats just don’t want to pay”. It almost feels organzied.
Maybe because I haven’t been here long but I haven’t noticed any alt right stuff myself.
I hope not. I remember a time in which you needed to know something in order to enjoy the Internet and I kinda hope this place remains less approachable by normies, but attractive to those who love technology. I feel this is like how IRC was in the 90s.
In order to screw up Lemmy, corporations would have to take over 1300 or so Instances, scattered in different countries all over the world.
The second they screwed up the most popular Instance(s), folks would just move to other Instances and they could defederate from the corporate ones.
Can corporations fuck it up if they want to? Couldn’t we just migrate to a new instance and not federate? Or not federate with them from the beginning?
I’ve already seen it happen with a company creating an account to plug their meal plan site, same thing that has been happening on reddit since it started. Just don’t trust any account thats trying to sell you something.
We always knew this would happen though.
Then we’ll create our own network. With blackjack and hookers!
