Right... (deep breath)
We *need* community-owned decentralised social networks. The Fediverse is the only place where this exists.
Centralised corporate social networks are easier to use because of investors' money, but these same investors demand ever-larger profits by spying on users, manipulating feeds and encouraging toxic engagement.
The Fediverse is trickier to use because it is decentralised and community-owned, but that's also what protects it from being bought out and enshittifying.
@FediTips The *only* place?
/me's feelings of having been a user of NNTP, IRC, SILC, XMPP and more over the previous decades are hurt.
I'm fully with you on that one, @teajaygrey ! Was about to mention the venerable netnews, Jabber, maybe even plain mailing lists. Your list is better.
A small amount of exaggeration can do a lot to weaken an otherwise perfectly reasonable argument.
So don't exaggerate.
I'm a big fan of XMPP, IRC etc but I wouldn't call them social networks, they're more like messaging and chat services?
If you do call them social networks then yes I stand corrected! 👍
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