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Ok So who is going to give you something for free and why?

People who value the ability to do publish information, or engage in personal expression, for starters.

That was actually why I was initially so active on Lemmy as well. I have been a bit dispirited by pro-Russian trolls arguing in bad faith and ingratiating themselves with frequent article posting, getting a pass from Lemmy admins. So I've been a bit disappointed lately. And I expect they will push into federated short form video. I'm not sure what the solution is other than to hope for better admins.

But that said, it's all in the backdrop, and in the foreground is the fact that the fediverse can be built out over the internet to handle social media and rebalance it away from all-or-nothing death star level control of individual companies. That, to me, is a win. And the only way it wouldn't be a win is if, I think, companies show they are up to the task of containing trolls, and that a fediverse wild west is exposed to coordinated inauthetic activity in a way that can't be controlled.

I think this one is especially tricky because it seems to be all about The Algorithm (I hate that "the algorithm" has become a thing people say, but you probably know what I mean when I say it). The secret sauce that makes it work is the algo, which is very data driven, and how that works on a federated platform I'm not sure.

I desperately want something like this to succeed though, it's exciting seeing major projects taking off. I've been on Lemmy since the beginning, and it is quite big now. Mastodon had a surge, probably the surge that federation needed. But I think Loops could potentially prove to be the most significant one yet. I can't say this model of content consuming is ideal, necessarily, but I think the important thing is showing that it can be federated.

I don't know who remembers the dog days of friendica and diaspora being our only hopes. Those were dark times, and now things are really taking off.

I'm talking about the fact that it ever happened, at all, anywhere. In this sense and in this spirit that I say "the historical existence of snow." It's not about a particular place or amount.

What's an AP messenger? (This better not be the setup for a punchline).

I'm absolutely okay with vilifying people asking for sources on the historical existence of snow.

I bet they saw the source and said "oh, yes, thank you for the source, I have updated my opinion based on this new information."

Remindme works on lemmy?

I think the only real path forward is for a developer to figure out a way to decentralize video hosting

That's what Peertube is all about. It's like the Lemmy version of Youtube. And it seems to have real funding and development mojo.

I understand that argument, but to me that departs from normal parlance of the kind that would ever be used in a meme.

I think the meme is suggesting that they were literally made by "the West" but maybe I'm missing something