I suspect the fediverse is stickier than mainstream social media, since there’s no incentive to be anti-consumer, and anyone can make their own frontend.
It’s only a matter of time until these companies keep making unforced errors and people join us.
Please file Nicole between “Beans” and “Trying not to Poop”
Being pedantic about the differences between mammoths and mastodons is legitimately one of my favorite pastimes. Thank you!
Agreed on all counts, except that rebrands rarely succeed without boatloads of cash behind them. And even then not always.
I’ve heard (and experienced to a certain extent) that a rebrand is a sign of the beginning of the end for a product.
The thing I miss most from Reddit is all the niche technical communities. So much knowledge is contained in those.
I’d argue it’s part of “the fediverse” but not “The Fediverse”.
Think of all the skills you could learn! Basically any task that takes less than 60 seconds to complete!
I’m actually okay with semi-centralized. Most people need that to trust a platform, but it still gives you the option to self host if you really care.
10/1 to celebrate the 101 key keyboard apparently? That’s what the linked article mentioned.
You’re getting downvoted but you’re right. If they joined the fediverse that means you can have an account on any other platform you choose, including one you own. And that one account can access all the content everywhere. So basically you’d get all the perks of YouTube but few if any of the problems.
Alts or bots, maybe
If that’s truly the case, nothing on earth can protect your data.
That being said, large corporations are far more liable to consumer protection lawsuits, especially in areas like the EU.
The easiest way is a sitewide NoAI meta tag, since it’s the current standard. Researchers are much more likely to respect a common standard and extremely unlikely to respect a single user’s personal solution adding a link to their comments.
Plus even if you defederate them, oops, it’s all public anyway!
Yeah but now they have to play by our rules or get defederated. We are no longer at the mercy of profit motives.
Because they’re not familiar with the concept of doing whatever the fuck you want.
The only thing Reddit still has is certain very active niche communities, but we do great on the more general stuff.
It’s a lovely place these days. Welcome back.
Yep, on a public forum like this we lose very little on privacy by federating with them. What we do stand to lose is comment and post quality, but that’s trivial to fix by simply blocking threads on a personal level.
Like every day? Yeah it’s worse now but Google is still useful for a lot of things.
That being said, I do have AdBlock so it’s a different internet for me.