On reddit I was a lurker that posted like once or twice a year, but ever since joining lemmy I’ve started posting multiple times a day.
On reddit I was a lurker that posted like once or twice a year, but ever since joining lemmy I’ve started posting multiple times a day.
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It’s interesting to think about how algorithmic (and now AI) curation could work in favour of different goals but capitalism has imprinted its ethic into our new digital commons
until you cross an invisible line and are made invisible on the site because your speech is not as free as they want to claim. esp if you want to speak truth to power.
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i would not exist without commercial social media?
I was running BBS’s and forums for decades before these sites came about.
How am I still alive and in existence now because of centralized internet?
this is a fascinating world view, tell me more about it.
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I was able to do that back in 1990 on FidoNet, again on usuenet in the mid-late 90s, on IRC in the 90s and 00s and using google to search forums in the 00’s until the centralized systems killed them. IRC, usenet and others still run, I can still email people I want to talk to as well.
What you are arguing for is a smooth, slick, paid for, UX. Minimal UI’s and typing “@” in names is too much. Looking at lists is annoying so you want it curated for you. VCs dumped money on private UX and now people think its essential. We have always been able to communicate directly, there is no technical limitation.
Its in the minds of the users and the unwillingness of some to see a different domain name or try a new UX flow.
Get some VC money drop 20m or so on Fedi UX and all of a sudden people will see very little difference.
Or just wait, I remember when the linux desktop was a joke too.
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i get what you are saying but thats not a reason to simply default to them, perfectly possible to post here and there, even with API blocks, it will come in time.
sure follow your fav movie star, no need to sit there engaging and giving them free content. i’ve existed on the internet just fine for over 30 years, tbh the centralized sites have only made things more difficult by your own admission. its going to be on us to build new social networks that…work. It always has been.
People follow the content producers.
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