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The man eventually tried to buy and financialize everything. The fuck up all of these great things we have, then make up some bullshit about the valie they add. Lemmy+fediverse is is a great idea, it will be awesome after a little more dev and improvement.
We’ve been down this road many times before where the man fucks up our shit, imagine how much farther downhill it’ll go in the future if they IPO and start getting pressured for more short term profits. Not everything needs to be monetized, we can have some nice not for profit services for the people by the people.
Given the launch dates, isn’t that just the standard console cycle anyway? ~6-7 years?
Given how close to PCs they are now hardware wise, it’d be environmentally friendly if they had upgrade modules available for CPU,GPU, RAM. Sort of like they have with storage now.
Just package and socket the modules in such a way that it’s a easy upgrade for console users.
I’n thinking it could happen over 20-30 yrs, they won’t collapse, but erode from where they are now.
A path to the decline could be decentralization of services combined with crypto currency. Money and infrastructure seems to be mostly what tech companies provide. Regulatory moats or other barriers to entry around payments logistics is a way they can still grip onto their positions.
Decentralized shopping, logistics (think decentralized Uber for package deliveries), and payments through crypto (BTC, stable coins, whatever), could be a path forward to break part of Amazon.
Web only services or middleman only services I think are a bit easier for them to sort of break out on their own, sort of like Lemmy and fediverse is. It’d just take longer for the quality of all of this to get better.
What are the typical actors in the Reddit and twitter spam scene? And what’s the likelihood of each type setting up on here now?
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Product spamming, to advertise.
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PR companies that offer to sway community opinions, upvote/down vote for their clients.
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State actors with various propaganda intent.
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Preparing the bot accounts early in order to sell them to PR companies or other actors above.
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Actors incentivized to try to turn this service into a shit hole to keep users in the normal channels for some reason or other. Give it financial incentives or ability to control narratives on other platforms.
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Bots push financial related news stories or sentiment, eg. Trying to pump crypto markets.
These are just ideas off of the top of my head of the type of bots or actors running them. But I don’t really have any experience with it, just wondering what everyone’s thinking the intent is.
Are Email addresses kept and logged anywhere, or are they discarded after registration?
For privacy reasons, it’d be nice if we could somehow have a reliable bot blocking/spam blocking method that doesn’t require Email.
While Email adds a good layer of spam blocking just from the spam blocking the email providers are doing themselves, having an option to verify with Email OR jump through multiple hoops instead would be cool. Hoops that are difficult for a bot to be programmed to defeat all of them. Such as captcha, with a simple math equation, and something else all combined.
Just tossing ideas around, because this is all still being built out.
Spez, or some other party involved in the financialization of Reddit and has an incentive to tilt opinion maybe. It’s all the kind of things that seem to happen.
I have seen the kind of thing you’re talking about plenty of times of Reddit and twitter in the past. Where users are shitting on a company, then all of these weird apologetic comments start coming out of nowhere, that nowhere near that many normal people would be spouting in defense of a shit move by a shit company.
The lack of negativity and divisiveness right away was noticable on here. The responses all looked much more respectful too.
“Negativity on my feed is nonexistent.”
Absolute first thing I noticed when I came in to test this as a Reddit alternative. It’s so refreshing, and the discourse is so civil.
If there’s a way we can keep this quality, it’d be amazing. I often wondered when I’m on Reddit or twitter how much of the awful negativity is really people’s or bots/algos prodding them into acting this way.
If the current big players best bets are to weasel in on the large instances, are there any simple changes that could be done to prevent their take over or influence? Things that aren’t too heavy handed?
Perhaps the various concensus theories and mechanisms that came out of crypto could somehow give inspiration on ideas to protect this service from the shitty financial actors that come in and ruin all of the good services.
I’m not saying actually using crypto, just maybe some of their concensus mechanisms/ideas for preventing bad actors could be put in place.
That’s an awesome Rube Goldberg machine of a pisser.
Hopefully whoever built that will make a version for the Chinese sperm extractor machine next.