I can't wait to be one of the "I was part of the great Reddit migration" dudes when this lemmy stuff inevitably goes tits up in 15 years.
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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Jokes on us because in 15 years all the instances alive right now will probably be dead and there will be no proof beyond an archive lol
@remindme@mstdn.social 15 years
Hadn’t thought about how many people will come back to see their RemindMes on Reddit only to find deleted comments from people that left Reddit nuking their comments.
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RemindMe! 15 years.
Oh, right, ☹️
Make your own bot. With black jack and hookers.
@remindme@mstdn.social 15 years
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While I agree with the worry concerning corporations joining, I don't really mind "normal" people joining though.
That being said, this is an incorrect use of the meme. The text on the two bottom panels are supposed to stay the same.
Sorry if I'm being pedantic.
No don't stop. This is the kind of nerd shit I've missed!
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This is the first time I've seen a Papers Please meme, and it makes me so happy.
I can hear this image
I’m gonna spam this everywhere. Thank you!
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The neat part is they really can't fuck it up. You can always run your own instance and defederate from a corporation causing problems. Eventually we'll be getting the feature to block entire instances too so you won't have to rely on your admin making that choice either.
They can't "fuck it up", but they can shove it back into irrelevancy.
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It’s decentralized though. That’s literally the reason I believe in the Fediverse
Easy. Ban every company.
Easy. ~~Ban~~ Defederate every company.
FTFY. It's FOSS. We can't stop them from spinning up their own instances (See: Threads) but that doesn't mean we have to play nicely with them.
Edit: Fuck it, I can't get the ~~strikethrough~~ to work.
I swear it was working at one point and hasn't worked for me recently either Maybe I'm misremembering.
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We have more control this time though... When the companies come, we can block them.
That's why we need to abolish private ownership, all corporations must be collectively owned by the community.
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It'll be a lot harder for them with federated software, and when the free instances are all solidly established
They can still infiltrate them by buying their way into the admin/s pokets since maintaining servers is expensive.
maintaining servers is a lot more affordable when your website isn't bloated with tracking and unnecessary features. It's not realistic for a corporation to buy up a significant chunk of the fediverse anyways
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Corporation owns reddit, owns twitter, owns meta, owns twitch and youtube.
Corporation cant own fediverse. Corporate interests could take over lemmy.world, or any other instance, but that doesnt give them the fediverse. They can block outside users from coming in, they can block inside users from going out, but they cant block outside users from eachother
It's not that simple, take a look at this article: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
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I hate to say it, but the vibe has gotten a lot more Reddit-y over the last couple months. Lemmy used to be a lot more controversial, and not afraid to show it
I kind of like that tbh. I have identified as an anarchist/communist for over 25 years and even I thought the content at Lemmy was too much of a downer to be around too much.
The point is not the content per se, the point is nobody has any other incentive than to have a good time and share. Instead of the basic human desire to be social constantly being exploited for shiny fucking coins by robots and or psychopaths.
You pick the communities you like. Diversity is key.
I'm not sure if it's brigading or if reddit was just better at hiding them, but I'm seeing a lot of alt-right, fuck-the-libs hate. Any of the current posts about the student loan forgiveness for example. So so many bad faith, tone-deaf arguments of "why should I pay for your loans" or "those lazy deadbeats just don't want to pay". It almost feels organzied.
Looking back on previous floods of alt-right hate... If it feels organized, it probably is.
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Yeah I hate how my personal site on my personal servers is always in mark zuckerbergs hands. Wait what was the question?
Don't be surprised if corporations bought out instances or whole development teams. Good thing new Inatances can be launched and the community can always fork the code and continue work.
I hope not. I remember a time in which you needed to know something in order to enjoy the Internet and I kinda hope this place remains less approachable by normies, but attractive to those who love technology. I feel this is like how IRC was in the 90s.
@mino I already saw some adposts from coorperations here. But they werent pushed to me as no ones serves ads here.
I just wouldn't use a corporate server. This here is more like old internet before the likes of google started to buy everything and consolidate the internet. Running a single server is not the same as a server farm in multiple countries.
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instances collectively agreeing to defederate from corporate ones is what will stop them
In order to screw up Lemmy, corporations would have to take over 1300 or so Instances, scattered in different countries all over the world.
The second they screwed up the most popular Instance(s), folks would just move to other Instances and they could defederate from the corporate ones.
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