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If the descentralization of social networks continue, we will have to prepare for the eventual rise of the instances wars, where people will start to fight about which instance is better and which one is weird to be in and so on, but that's for the future of us all.

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[–] AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Or, just make it fun friendly competition and start a quiz show like tournament of teams from each instance, no need for war.

[–] Rengoku@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Mastodon is on a decline already. It is different than, say, Lemmy. Mastodon's contents are produced mainly by mainstream content creators, and they do not migrate from Twitter its counterpart.

[–] sagrotan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Already in it. Where've YOU been? I'm in the trenches here for lemmy.one

[–] Gunbudder@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Can we just go back to BBS where you have dial in with your land line to post on a board? The difficulty of use acted like an awesome protection from any community growing too large too fast and was super easy to moderate. I just want to pull my socks up to my knees, yell at the clouds, and dial in to the NG BBS...

[–] TinfoilBeanieTech@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

"...eventually..."

It's already starting.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty grandiose to refer to discussions with a bit of trolling as a war.

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or, more likely, trolling with a bit of discussion.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

You want a war, bruh? I'll fite you right now!!

[–] SINapps@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

He's got an instance with a nail in it...

[–] lhx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the good ol IRC days.

[–] gvasco@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

IRC was fun, then people chose corporate poisoned simplicity (AOL, MSN) and that spelt the doom for protocols, until now.

[–] besenwesen@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Were there mailserver wars?

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[–] match@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

Technically Truth and Gab are activitypub compatible right? We can already fight with them

[–] Anomalous_Llama@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I remember the war between /r/me_irl and /r/meirl back in the day on Reddit

Me_irl gang for life personally 😤

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