Mastodawn

itadakimasu Jun 24, 2023

Imagine Lemmy becoming so popular it drives Reddit to support ActivityPub or go extinct

Imagine Lemmy becoming so popular it drives Reddit to support ActivityPub or go extinct - Lemmy.world

Reddit would become compatible with Lemmy essentially making it it’s own “instance”, and suddenly 3rd party apps work with Reddit again. Full circle.

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Cameli_Hostis Jun 25, 2023

I think we'll all be better off if we can keep Reddit and Meta^✱^, and Corporate Information out of the garden.

How to kill decentralized networks.

^✱^ now with legs

How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)

How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

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NoSuchNarwhal

As soon as things are big enough here, there will be the potential to profit, and they'll find a way.

Fediverse can only win by keeping its ground, by speaking about freedom, morals, ethics, values

There are only a small core of people (ok, a lot of people, but a very small percentage of social media users) who value those things enough to push back effectively against a glitzy, well-funded corporate implementation.