John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
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Come to Lemmy, we got: blood thirsty Linux users, furries, femboys, communists, and tankies. Also, porn.
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Not commenting on Bluesky, but the others have taken steps to differentiate themselves
Mastodon was handed over to a non profit
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24342603/mastodon-non-profit-ownership-ceo-eugen-rochko
Signal has been under a nonprofit
Being open source also means that people can fork the apps if something changes, or apps + server code in the case of a lot of fediverse software
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The whole point of federation is that that can't really happen.
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Intentionally, I think.
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I may be wrong, but I think it's because some company owns the rights to the show in Canada and doesn't want people watching it on YouTube
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Often most of those at the same time.
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So thats why it was slow for a while.
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Probably not, they sell your traffic data to plant trees, they're not privacy oriented its just that their greed serves a common good.
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I've heard all kinds of bad rumours about Brave but idk if any of it is true.
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Holy shit! A sane rational Lemmy user in the /c/Fediverse community! Someone who sees the bigger picture, and isn't just reacting to this small niche area of the internet.
Look, I love Lemmy, but I can't sit by and act like just because something is a better service, and makes logical sense to use, that people will ever have even heard of it. That's not how PEOPLE work. Yes, Lemmy is better than reddit. But no, Lemmy will not overtake reddit in usercount maybe in my lifetime. Unless reddit gets sold, and then plummets into death like myspace did. Then Lemmy wins by default, but it's not the same thing.
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everyone(well, everyone but you I guess) most people on this community seems to miss all that. -
It's good to have some friends, but don't let too many normies in.....
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It's fun for now until the state gets a hold of it. They'll be over here sooner or later, just let them trickle in and get everyone used to it.
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YES! #winning
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Have you heard of bridgy?
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How can anyone not love the guy?
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Bluesky was always twitters goal, they were losing hella money, so they devloped blue sky.
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So twitter didn't make money anyways, this is a better way for them to hold power
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If I was losing money and wanted to mantain control over the public id become a public benefit corp too
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Do you really think Lemmy could handle the amount of people that Reddit has?
yup. no question. Not one instance mind you, but Reddit is also a giant cluster. (and clusterfuck)
As far as I know the existing instances are usually running on capacity and always in need of donations,
We just need the big bois to stop stuffing themselves. There's 0 reason to have 2/3 of the totally traffic flooding into world because people are scared of Federation that they never even have to deal with.
Maybe Lemmy would benefit of some way to get people to pay, such as purchasing the ability to give people awards etc.
Maybe we make some premium pay servers with baller architecture, killer response time, user capacity limits and high speed storage?
But the point is that without a business model, the Fediverse will only be able to handle a limited number of enthusiasts before it faces scaling problems.
Eventually, it's going to be ads, donations or payments. It's all someone else's computer, someone has to foot the bill. But at great scale, you should be able to have an ad-free experience for something in the range a dollar or two a month.
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We reached a point a while ago where yall saying shit like this became the "normies"
