John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
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Yeah, infighting in the resistance is a waste of time.
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from what i understand, a decentralized bluesky is nothing for an enduser at all.
TL;DR: the cost for an enduser to run a bluesky instance will soon be prohibitive because of the amount of storage needed owed to its shared heap architecture. but what it does is to provide a "credible exit" - if users lose trust or the company shutters, there's nothing in the way of another organisation picking up the mantle and continue from there on.
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I think, If we have any credible threat, it's going to be from the Governmental gross anti-tampering laws, forced moderation, or backup regulations. They could make it legally difficulty for us to exist
This. I have considerable concern that Fascists will straight up ban Fedi if enough people shift to it. They don't like not being able to control everything, Fedi is far too much actual freedom of communication.
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Being humble is sexy!
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He has the most posts and comments on the Lemmy activity scoreboard.
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I could see people promoting Piefed and Mbin instead.
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Iām so looking forward to that!
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Depends on the kind of wyvern
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Bluesky is what happens when someone with a corporate mindset wants to make something new and good. Mastodon happens when hobbyists get together and make something. Ive heard BlueSky has a board of people in charge to make sure it doesn't end up like twitter. Exactly what one would expect a company to do. Make sure something doesnt go wrong? Put a few people in charge. Mastodon just has the whole community. I may be wrong here as I dont use either. Right now Im just wondering what will happen when BlueSkys provider comes knocking with the hosting bill.
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John Oliver being uploaded to YouTube is awesome! I should comment that Lemmy is a great Reddit alternative
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Content moderation primarily serves advertisers
I'm lost, here. Do you not think fighting toxicity and hate speech is a valid and important function of moderation that's just as much or more for the sake of the people as it might be for advertisers?
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Well fuck the mastodonians their stupidity is no reason to make everyone else's experience shitter.
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The thing about fedi is how do u stop it. Ban every instances ip? make it illegal to use? They can try but they will have very little success.
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That's what I suspect
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I think the rise of hate speech on centralised platforms relies very heavily on theur centrlaised moderation and curation via algorithms.
They have all known for a long time that their algorithms promote hate speech, but they know that curbing that behaviour negatively affects their revenue, so they don't do it. They chase the fast buck, and they appease advertisers who have a naturally conservative bent, and that means rage bait and conventional values.
That's quite apart from when platform owners explicitly support that hate speech and actively suppress left leaning voices.
I think what we have on decentralised systems where we curate/moderate for ourselves works well because most of that open hate speech is siloed, which I think is the best thing you can do with it.
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They'd shut down large instances, pressure WordPress to remove support, in the US at least, it could be seen as too risky, if they wanted to they would find a way. I don't think this would happen easily in the EU though.
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Really hoping legislators in Sweden don't force Signal to pull its services from the country. š«£
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What about the dragon type?
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This was literally the photo that finally got me banned from Reddit years ago.
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As long as no one sells off Lemmy, which is impossible now...
