• Haui@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Who wants to bet that all companies will open up instances once they get wind of it?

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          I just checked. It seems they’re using activitypub as well. So yes, they‘re sort of in the ballpark with it, like kbin. So I suppose you’re right. But the others have to follow.

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          Kind of. Threads launched without federation, and I don’t think it has enabled federation yet.

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      Honestly I’m thankful lemmy isn’t in the media, or this place would grow out of control. I think a steady growth is much healthier.

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        I’d be super okay with it getting a bit bigger so smaller communities can flourish and then not getting any bigger after that. Reddit is so big it’s a dreary and dead place in the comments and posts

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    I don’t see this as a problem, the media is terrible at understanding/caring about real cultural trends.

    The fact that I have a better time on Lemmy than Reddit on my phone, despite the huge difference in user numbers, says it all to me.

    Reddit has been seeing a meaningful and lasting decline since they decided users don’t matter, and there’s no coming back from that.

    Just like Facebook has suffered a permanent user loss and failure to grow, so will Reddit. It won’t be overnight, but newer generations are increasingly tech-literate, even when they aren’t more media-literate.

    I never thought Mastodon would become a place to be, despite always hoping. Never imagined a real Reddit alternative would start to form, but here I am.

    Cambridge Analytica laid the foundation of general disdain for centralized social media, and Elon Musk single-handedly exhausted the public’s patience with corporate bullshit.

    I think decentralized options are here to stay, and I think the only centralized platforms that will take longer to upend are video-dependant ones.

    All in good time.

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      To be honest Lemmy is just the right amount of content for me, and generally high quality.

      It has also gotten me out of my doom scrolling habits that were causing anxiety issues. Thank God for that.

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        Lemmy needs moderation tools and then a big domain name. Then it’ll be ready to go.

        The single most important thing it needs is to send delete requests when a post is deleted from the original instance. (Either by a moderator or the user.)

        And something to clean up unused files would be nice, but that can be kicked off manually for now.

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      Being underground is the best way to make sure that we can form and mature as a community.

      Getting big too fast and being in focus too soon will nip our community in the bud.

      Just like music. New trends trend to brew underground for years before they break out and take over from the current mainstream.

      Though I would prefer that we remain under the radar. It’s more fun that way.

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    Mass media controlled by a handful of billionaires is simping for social media controlled by a handful of billionaires. Color me shocked.

    These media giants will never let fediverse become big

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    We’re only a couple weeks out from a child pron incident and we’re constantly in-fighting/defederating with communist communities brigading other instances so… I get it.

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    They desperately miss the mid-2010s when “here’s what someone said on twitter” and “missing plane still missing” were the only stories anyone was expected to pursue, and neither required any legwork.

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    Hey, if people want to give Jack their data and time again, more power to them, that motherfucker is never getting any of mine again.

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    I like Lemmy. It’s not overwhelmed. And seems to be keeping steady.

  • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world
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    Imagine valuing what the fuck a bunch of companies think about you.

    lol.

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