For-profit is not the future. Commercial platforms aren’t the future. Advertising-funded services are all doomed to fail eventually Enshitification is inevitable when the fundamental purpose of the site is commerce.
At least as it is now, fediverse is all cooperative and user-funded. That will be what protects it from going down the same road. Whether it can permanently survive that way I do not know. As soon as any major instance turns to advertising to pay the bills, the entire space is in deep and terrible danger.
Maybe the curve will keep the trolls out of here… It’s a bit like using Linux. Almost all people you interact with are nice and intelligent since you need to be a certain kind of personality to even be interested in learning it.
When something becomes mainstream popular, corporations will stripmine the value and the experience will worsen significantly.
The reality for those that have been through the collapse of Digg and now Reddit due to centralized corporate greed: “WE WONT GET FOOLED AGAIN!”
Decentralized and federated is the future. Hopefully it will be a healthier version of social media.
For-profit is not the future. Commercial platforms aren’t the future. Advertising-funded services are all doomed to fail eventually Enshitification is inevitable when the fundamental purpose of the site is commerce.
At least as it is now, fediverse is all cooperative and user-funded. That will be what protects it from going down the same road. Whether it can permanently survive that way I do not know. As soon as any major instance turns to advertising to pay the bills, the entire space is in deep and terrible danger.
People just need to understand that they are going to have to abandon communities.
Competition is the way to go.
Why so?
Entropy
I believe profitable non-profit organization are the future.
Organizations with a goal that is not to maximize their profit, being profitable is just a way to reach their goal.
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
I hope the threadiverse will end up being as good an experience as mastodon, it really is a more healthy version of social media to me at least :)
Fool me once,shame on you
Fool me twice, shame on… Me
Fool me thrice… you fooled me I can’t get fooled again!
seems reminiscent of the whole pre-order type deal for games
uffda.
I’ve been on reddit an embarrassingly long time. From before the rapist thread to violentacrez facilitating abhorrent things.
Lemmy certainly seems less abhorrent and also a bit of a difficult learning curve.
Maybe the curve will keep the trolls out of here… It’s a bit like using Linux. Almost all people you interact with are nice and intelligent since you need to be a certain kind of personality to even be interested in learning it.
When something becomes mainstream popular, corporations will stripmine the value and the experience will worsen significantly.
You’re not wrong. I also wish it were more accessible to lovely people.
I’m not necessarily nice, just not a dick.
Not really intelligent, I just smash my head against the wall until things work.
But fuck big corporations.