Exactly. Which is why I believe that all this fearmongering is because of Meta's reputation (rightfully so) rather than because Meta actually has a plan to destroy the fediverse. And it's not the like the fediverse can be actually destroyed, people can always start new instances at any time.
Ever heard of Mastodon blocklists? I mean defederation has been happening for a while.
But I think that's fine. Instances should have every right to block instances that they disagree with.
You can already donate to the people operating this instance. No subscriptions needed, just donate away.
That's because Mastodon is a federated Twitter clone. If you never used Twitter to begin with (which is really for professionals/celebrities/famous people to put out public messages to people), then you won't get it. Most people don't need to use Twitter or anything like it.
I mean, how is a bot not already crawling through public sites like Lemmy and Mastodon for the purposes of AI training? Federated or unfederated, if you are providing social media services that data you have is already out there.
I don't use Twitter, so no. But normies will finally have a potentially credible Twitter replacement that's open to the public, so good for them.
Yeah hopefully we get past the shitpost/meme stage which seems to be taking over here right now.
Isn't it called BitTorrent?
Yeah but Reddit has 18 years of history and content behind it. So you will always find something worth reading. Here, I'm losing interest quickly. Memes are boring, I want to see some substantive discussion about something I don't know anything about - something which Reddit and its userbase still excels at.
Well, bugs and UI aside, it seems like Lemmy can work but there's not a lot of substantive discussion right now. The most upvoted stuff are memes and other low effort content. I'm not sure how long a bean meme can sustain serious activity.
If only we could crowdfund billions per month for a video site run by the community for the community!