sarah zedig! 🍉🐐it's unbelievable what's happening to the internet right now. just a vacuum of stolen wealth into the pockets of stupendously ignorant tech moguls, with virtually zero regulatory oversight stopping them from joyfully annihilating the informational backbone of modern society.
like it is genuinely embarrassing how tech illiterate our politicians are that they're just as clueless today as they were 20 years ago. every single day i see some new wretched development that makes me want to scream, please, for the love of god, will SOMEONE just make them STOP ALREADY
we need regulation. we NEED regulation. i'm no reformist, i believe the only acceptable longterm solution is the abolition of the profit motive, but holy hell will i settle for literally any government retaliation against these brazen thieving con artists
we're two generations deep into a cultural shift towards primarily online society, yet it's somehow less stable now than it was in 2008! every time we get a healthy network going, some 30-under-30 ivy league failson buys the house sight unseen and burns it down for the insurance.
it's crazy! no one wants this! we're all fucking miserable! and our leaders are just letting it happen, because i guess the only thing a government exists to do is means test the poor and blow up foreign nations
i've been consistently online in some form since at least 2004. most every platform i've ever used is long dead, its content erased, its history forgotten. how are we supposed to make sustainable careers online when the infrastructure is so chaotically ephemeral?
it would be trivially easy for the government to put the brakes on this shit. it's so fucking bad out there now that i'd take even the limpest of liberal regulation if it meant i didn't have to rethink my entire career every six months
Tsunderdog@sarahzedig the only way to ensure that your work survives an ephemeral, chaotic environment is to create your own hub.
if you don't already have a dedicated website, you may really want to consider it soon.
LP still can't spell Ainmhícon@tsunderdog @sarahzedig unfortunately not a scalable solution because not literally everybody online can afford the energy and money to be their own sysadmin
I hope "small community shared hosting" can be the salve here, but masto is already showing that good migration support is absolutely essential (and currently absent) there.
@LionsPhil sysadmin not required. if the problem is that the work can't be kept online forever, a simple personal gallery will do the job
@tsunderdog I mean, if it's truly standalone, at the end of the day you have to own your own domain. So long as we're talking something interwebby, DNS is kinda the root of identity you can hold on to as companies and services come and go. That's an obstacle, and unfortunately the only way to make it not an obstance is to trust *someone*.
@tsunderdog There is a difference that if my masto instance admin decides they've had enough, I can at least move within mastodon and stay as part of the same system with the same people; whereas as Bad Person decides to burn down birdsite, well, too bad, it's gone.
That's where my hope lies, but there's...still a lot of room for improvement in account mobility for the fediverse.
@tsunderdog (If an instance goes away without warning of course, then, well, hope you were disciplined about keeping current exports. We almost need an inverse cloud backup so people get regular local copies of their stuff.)
@LionsPhil i came to plush from the instance "snouts online". the community exploded in a fireball of internal admin drama and i watched the person who had been handed the keys to the instance the domain destroy it and revel in it over the course of 30 days
communities come and go. BBSes, forums, chatrooms, and services have always been ephemeral.
you can really only save what you love and move on
@LionsPhil i hear what you're saying, i'm in agreement that not everyone can be their own admin. as a freelance artist and general hobbyist, i find my personal website to be a key and essential hub
i don't have to write it on my own with my own skill but i'm doing it because i want to learn