WELP, time to go find an even smaller discussion forum! This place really sold out...
tildes.net is still around, lel
I really wanted to give Lemmy a try, but I think I'll be returning to the whiteboard in my office for organic, sophisticated discussion.
I'm just going to start handing notes to people in my immediate vicinity, like an analog meshtastic. Or a middle schooler.
It's the Fediverse. You can literally run your own little instance on your own or or a friend's computer and restrict only the ideas you want to talk about. When you say "this place" you mean everyone else since there's not a single entity controlling the flow of discussion.
And if "we" sold out, I'd like to know how much each of us got. I seem to have missed a check.
Is english your second language? (man was clearly joking, you seem to believe he really thinks it "sold out")
I bet many of us are subbed to 404 given their content's presence here. It's good to see them returning the favour! Time to show that content is not created only on Reddit.
That's the case for me. 404 was the first media outlet that was actively using the fediverse (Mastodon, specifically) to interact with their readers and share their content. At the same time, I realized that if I was going to start using non-VC-funded social media, I should probably pay for some non-VC-funded news sources, too.
Especially given 404's main subject matter, I bet there are a lot of discussions on the fediverse that are relevant to what 404 covers.
That's my thought process too.
As much as I want to see Lemmy and the rest of the fediverse flourish; at the same time, I hope it doesn't.
Once the fediverse becomes popular and gains main-stream attention, the billionaires and political twats will flock towards it and try to monetize it; Morons will flood the fediverse with memes and AI slop worse than [email protected] (you know what you've done); corporations will start spamming ads for their shitty products; and scammers will start setting up bot nets to coerce users into sending them money to their new AI waifus.
The unbearable weight of all the garbage entering and attacking the fediverse will drive moderators out the door, leaving servers as wastelands of junk. No longer interesting, no longer human. Just trash, like how Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, etc... are today.
So yes, I'll welcome friends and family into the fediverse with open arms. But I really hope we don't start getting too many shout outs
I have been seeing an uptick in both slop and RWA trolling recently and have taken it as a sign of rising popularity. I just hope moderators can, and will, be able to keep up with pushing out the toxic elements. I would hate to see the fediverse become Reddit 2.0.
RWA?
Synonyms include: fascists, nazis, magas, tories, bigots, etc.
Ah thanks! Compared to that, I'm perfectly fine with the LWA on here :D
Left wing anarchists?
Not what I meant but I wish 🏴
slop and shitposting is fine as long as it isn't the majority of the content, sadly shitpost memes seem to be becoming the majority
Great, now we might get some government attention. But we still have an ace up our sleeve:
What's that supposed to mean? All of Lemmy servers are open to the public. Anyone can read all the messages even without any accounts? The decentralised parts mainly prohibit shutting down the whole network easily, taking out one server wouldn't do much to the rest.
For me the decentralization means we can always take our party somewhere else if it gets enshittified.
Invite only instances are probably going to have to become a thing soon. Like how 99% of Reddit doesn’t let you comment with a new account until you look less like spam.
But at least here you will always be able to join/start a server to host your account.
if lemmy got popular overnight, wed prob get invite only instances where the requirement is having a lemmy account past a certain age
I don't think surveillance is the issue here (what would they spy on?), more so getting shut down. Which is also virtually impossible due to federation.
I knew I liked those 404 folks. I might need to upgrade to a paid subscription.
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