I’m getting really tired of trying to run away from big tech, only to be ensnared again by the greed and/or naivety of sites who ultimately cave to the whims of big tech.
Mastodon has already caved, and the silence of lemmy’s and kbin’s developers over this matter isn’t exactly reassuring. Since I more or less still have my bags packed from leaving reddit, what are some other communities I could try that would be more resilient to corporate encroachment?
Threads is just a bad ActivityPub client with ads, tracking and Zuck. I am less worried about it and the federation with it because we will get non of that, no ads, no tracking and we can block Zuck. I am more worried about a general flood of typical instagram users and their love for the most blandest of human interaction.
Ultimately, the important thing is that communities can exist with some amount of independence and can operate by their own preferences.
Sometimes I want serious intellectual conversations. Sometimes I want to talk about trashy reality TV. Sometimes I just want the dumbest memes to ever enter a human mind. None of these have to be mutually exclusive, so long as different communities can manage themselves.
No no, I am not talking about people who enjoy talking about trashy reality tv.
I talk about people who’s main focus in life is posting presumably good looking pictures of their face and body on instagram. Or people whos main focus is to look wealthy on instagram. Like the absolute peak of human blandness.
You raise another good issue; the influx of all those most of us left behind on Reddit, though a slightly different breed.
I’m really enjoying actual conversation here, the posting of actual articles and discussions. I like that my feed isn’t full of memes (I blocked the instances that like that stuff, power to them elsewhere), reposted tiktok videos and tweet screenshots. The fediverse is going to be tainted. Obviously it could happen eventually if this place got more popular, but I was hoping to have a longer grace period…
uh well, i dont understand… you are able to self host these services. you can self host a Masto instance, a lemmy instance, and a kbin instance. you aren’t tied to big tech just because a large instance has federated with big tech… so i don’t see how “Mastodon has caved”. i am on mstdn.social and the admin is blocking Meta from the start as Threads is not allowed to operate in the EU at the moment (exception is London, right?)
either self host or find an instance that isn’t federating with big tech. you don’t have to run anywhere.
Threads is available in the UK, the UK is not in the EU any more. We theoretically have data protection laws grandfathered in from the EU but they’re not enforced
the silence of lemmy’s and kbin’s developers over this matter isn’t exactly reassuring
This isn’t how the Fediverse works. Instance owners can decide who they will/won’t federate with. The developers just develop the software the instance owners use.
Forums are the best.
Three, as NSFW content is already almost universally defederated from by every instance.
God I hope the wider fediverse loses its prudishness as a result of this. Corpos hate nsfw stuff, we should be joining forces.
Not being horny all the time is not the same as being a prude.
Corpos hate NSFW stuff because your average person doesn’t generally like it unless they’re explicitly searching for it. It’s not like C Suite execs also all randomly are Puritans.