I think this decentralization and federation is what web3 is all about, without all the corporations calling everything to do with monkey pixel art that costs a million dollars “web3”

  • @[email protected]
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    1361 year ago

    It’s pretty dope. Been following the fediverse for a while, but I’ve never used twitter so mastodon felt kinda useless to me. I’ve never used facebook, so friendica felt kinda useless to me.

    Anonymous strangers posting links and having discussions? Now that’s more my jam.

    • 🌍 kommanditbolag
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      261 year ago

      I’ve loved that part of reddit and still do to a point. The thing that’s been creeping into the platform is the problem with bots and astroturfing.

      • @[email protected]
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        171 year ago

        My favourite part was AMAs by scientists and authors or even ppl like Gov Schwarzenegger. I hope fediverse develops to that point one day.

        • DarkwingDuck
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          111 year ago

          I remember when AMAs were organic and people actually answered questions. Before prepared questions and answers became a thing.

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          41 year ago

          I loved seeing those IAMAs too. Schwarzenegger, Obama, NASA scientists and Woody Harrelson (can we talk about Rampart?)! Unfortunately I think the web is worse now, far too much focus on monetization, bots, propaganda> and astroturfing.

          I’m hoping that Lemmy flies under the radar in the sweet spot of enough subscribers but not too many.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        The only bot issue I heard of is following people, which one would only get notified if they use new reddit or official app. What were the other bot problems? What’s to stop the bots on this site?

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      111 year ago

      Same here, neither of those are my thing, but lemmy scratches my needs. Of course without reddit fucking up, I would never have checked it out, but now I’m really hoping this gets big, without losing it’s core