phillaholic

No, I am pointing out that you developed a great open system with the false idea that individuals will be in power and little to no real consideration on how to stop corporations from taking it. Lemmy doesn’t exist in a vacuum. All the problems we have in real life with corporations gaining power is true in the fediverse, but worse because there are no courts to limit their power. Make no mistake about it, if Meta is motivated enough, they will steamroll everyone else. Not that many people are going to be loyal to the platform if the content isn’t there. If the content migrated to Threads so will 95% of the user base. Defederating one-by-one is not going to stop them and will fragment and make what we have now worse. I don’t believe it’s the answer, but am happy to be proven wrong.

Raising awareness about what massive corporations ALWAYS attempt to do

How many family members have you convinced to stay off Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok etc? How many are tired of you annoying them about it? Your statement isn't false, but it's also not new, and I'm arguing it's inevitable. You're not going to stop massive corporations by trying to group together a ton of individuals who all have to come to the same decisions. It's a Catch22 of sorts. You're only worried about it because people can't beat corporations. You can't overcome that because people can't beat corporations.

I don't like Meta either, and don't use any of their products. But you've invited them in already.

we need to prepare for the extinguish

And my entire point is you can't. The system is designed to allow anyone in, you can't decided to stop someone because they are a corporation. It's similar to people trying to stop the NSA from committing anything to the Linux kernel because you're afraid they're going to put in a backdoor. It can't be done by design.

Spot on... but we have very little power to stop them, unless you are comfortable with the size of Lemmy today.

I just want to find the content I like, the content that helps me solve problems, and a way to interact with it without being forced to see ads. I'm not going to use a worse product just because it's not controlled by a corporation and I don't think I'm alone in that across most of the population.

People are thrilled to try and build something new and people like you come and shit on them to try to recreate reddit.

I'm not stopping you. If you want to re-lean the lessons of the past because you ignore those that experienced them, feel free. You can't design a system ripe for corporate takeover and act shocked when it happens.

You wouldn't want to traverse the border red-tape, that's my point.

Some of the issues, like multiple communities of the same subject were true of reddit in the beginning, and perhaps time will solve the issue, but your right in discovery being terrible. I still don't know what the Apple community is. Half the time using iOS the app fails to load search. Other times there doesn't appear to be many subscribers on any over any other. Subscribing to multiple just gives me the same topics over and over again. So I end up with a feed that doesn't refresh much and has many duplicates. Not a ton of discussion or self posts either.

That's exactly what I'm talking about. If a lot of your comments are pointing out logical fallacies against bad people then it looks like you're muddying the waters. For example pointing out logic fallacies in arguments against conservatives but not doing the same against liberals wouldn't make you wrong outright, but you'd be wrong by omission.

What are you talking about? There's nothing stopping corporations from coming here and doing the same exact thing they've gone covertly on Reddit. If Lemmy becomes popular enough it will happen. Arguably it already has from certain interests and people here are extremely naive if they think it's not.

Good. Stop printing.

Yes. Imagine if every culdasac had its own set of laws that you’d have to consider. Some your friends can’t come i to. Others don’t acknowledge the culdasac next door exists. Sure you could move to the culdasac you fit in with the best, but I wouldn’t want to limit my friends or interests that narrowly, nor would I want those things to be taken away from me and be forced to move all the time. I don’t see it as better.