For years, the internet has been shrinking. Not in size, not in data, but in ownership. A vast, decentralized network of personal blogs, forums, and independent communities has been corralled into a handful of paved prison yards controlled by a few massive corporations. Every post, every “friend,” every creative work—
  • AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.spaceEnglish
    3·
    8 days ago

    The problem isn’t that the fediverse isn’t viable. The problem isn’t that it’s “too complicated.” The problem is that the giants of Silicon Valley have spent 20 years convincing us that anything outside their control isn’t worth our time.

    And that’s just not bloody true.

    Couldn’t have said it better myself

    • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      I don’t think it’s too complicated, but it is noticeably more complicated than joining traditional social media. People often get immediately freaked out by the whole concept of instances. I know everybody keeps trying to use the email comparison, but that just is not working. People cannot connect the dots between email and something like Instagram.

    • witnessbolt@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      Refugee here. Think I’d agree. A subconscious bias / misunderstanding we bought into

    • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      Exactly! That’s how people usually argue against the Fediverse. People have literally been indoctrinated into believing the internet is centralised.

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
        0·
        8 days ago

        Our biggest enemy is actually the bootlicker.

        Once that guy flips the regime will have hard time maintaining legitimacy

        Americans don’t understand the politics of proper opposition and dissent

        Voting for the other guy ain’t it… And it is a lot more than “politics” it is a life style.

        Deny the parasite profit and engagement

        • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 days ago

          Our biggest enemy is actually the bootlicker

          I got a small dose of this at work. My coworker has a safety incident, almost fucked up her hand. She got made the safety champion the next day, and was concerned about the optics.

          My lead told her “don’t worry what they think of you” but brother you are a leader. Public perception is your strongest tool. You absolutely should be worried what we think of you

    • AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      8 days ago

      I jumped over here a couple weeks ago at the request of another redditor and it’s like a breath of fresh air.

      I still check out reddit for a couple subs that just don’t have enough interaction over here “yet”.

      I’ve mentioned lemmy a couple times over there and got replies like " it’s just too complicated " etc. and now that I think about it they were most likely bots 🤔

      Ima go back to the cesspool and investigate

      • AizawaC49@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        7 days ago

        I jumped over here a couple weeks ago at the request of another redditor and it’s like a breath of fresh air.

        Literally a breath fresh of air is what I can relate to. I also realized how it’s way way smaller in the size of communities and I appreciate it. My other favorite is no advertisement. I am as well trying to introduce a couple of my friends to move over the Lemmy. It is a little bit of a curve to learn, but it’s not as hard.

        • AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          7 days ago

          Seems like a lot of people will be coming from reddit.

          Hopefully some of the niche communities get a little more traffic over here. Most of the subs I visited over there weren’t very toxic and i actually referred to reddit over google for info on a variety of subjects. It’s just hard to support the platform at this point it really went downhill since 14 ~16

  • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    8 days ago

    Honestly lemmy specifically is good enough to scratch my Reddit itch. We may not be able to post our way out of fascism, but we can certainly post our way out of the centralized, enshittified platforms like Reddit where we came from.

    I think it’s more difficult in applications where you want or have to bring a lot of friends to make the apps useful, but in the case of lemmy specifically if there’s a baseline level of activity that’s enough to fulfill 90% of what i used Reddit for (i.e. snarky memes and random back and forths with relative strangers).

    • PeterisBacon@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Agreed. We should take the extra time to upvote, comment, and share on this app. Cheers mate!

    • shrugs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      That’s the spirit. Reddit and all other social media died for me during the exodus 1 1/2 years ago. Since then i go to lemmy and I’m fine. Tbh I’m not really sure if more user will not also pull commercial interests into the fediverse and if that is something I’m looking forward to, but for now, everything seems like reddit around 2010, not too big but big enough to not being out of content after scrolling for 10 mins.