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A place to discuss the use of the internet with less corporate influence.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Good idea for a community, hope it will be active. IMO there are some non-corporate internet concepts that don't really fit into existing communities. There are already communities like [email protected] and [email protected] but there are also non-corporate ideas that are unrelated to the fediverse or to small websites. For example, worker-owned news websites. It may be a big website, and it might not have fediverse support, but it's still a way of removing corporate influence from the internet.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thanks for your thoughts, tuckerm. I didn't create it as an authority on the matter but rather as someone that has gotten very worried about how hard it is to get info that isn't blended in a corporate blender.

My most recent example was realizing over 3/4 of my regular forums are owned by verticalscope. The sweeping changes across all the sites were rubbing me the wrong way. Trying to find active forums that hadn't sold to them has proven next to impossible, however.

Which led to my curiosity; could we groupthink a useful database of sites and resources that hadn't yet been absorbed by one of these conglomerates?

I've started work on a sister site that I hope to use to make keeping track of solutions easier if my attention span permits.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Oh man, I had forgotten about Verticalscope. People often mention forums as the last remaining part of the pre-social-media internet, but they might not be aware that there is a big, publicly traded holdings company gobbling them up very quickly. Identifying independent forums would be a great thing to talk about.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Does it really need AI generated images?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Awesome. Feel free to populate it with a couple example posts so people get an idea.

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