Investor fraud is basically the entire business model of well basically everything anymore. I also wouldn't put them past it to have ai generated comments.
fluffykittycat
joined 1 month ago
The old internet never went away, not on a technical level for sure. What changed is that big corporations had dominant positions from control over user bases and then they squeezed us for profits so hard that it's no longer worth it to use them. This process seems to have accelerated since the end of the era of easy money in 2022 which is why we're seeing things pop off more than it used to.
The thing is for a good solid decade using one of those corporate websites actually it wasn't so bad, I was right user since 2012 and it used to be good. It's slowly degraded over the years since then and at this point I think I'm fine never going back, except if I am reading some several years old post that has information but even then the internet archive can do that for you and it might be the only place to get that information from Reddit
It's been a while since I've been on and everything I'm hearing is that it just keeps getting worse. Eventually it'll be completely unusable and probably shudder but by then the real conversation will have moved elsewhere
Without anonymity it is in fact pointless. Pseudo anonymity is extremely useful I basically won't go anywhere without it. That's definitely a feature we should advertise to people, you can actually be anonymous
The problem is that communities feel dead if they're below a certain critical mass of users and the resulting content. If we can hit that critical mass it will take off on its own
I'm using Voyager right now and I agree it's good
At a certain point it becomes harassment and should be moderated accordingly. Something that we're going to need to do as we grow in order to be a functional social spaces that harassment needs to be something you get banned for because a lot of the negative experience people have on the corporate crap is because of widespread normalized harassment. If an instance isn't so bad it gets defederated users probably shouldn't be given shit for merely using it
The reason it doesn't matter is because they all interoperate, unless one of them is a problem and needs to be cut off. Yours isn't the worse but some people do have a negative opinion of it. If anyone decides to de-federate you won't be able to see posts from there but this probably doesn't matter a whole lot unless the instance you are on is a total pariah
That's why I don't have ill will for people for having a non cybertruck Tesla unless you can tell it's new. But if you don't have an anti elon sticker I'm starting to side eye them
The thing about right Wingers is that they don't want to talk to each other for the same reason we don't want to talk to them. It turns out they're just nasty people generally, that's why all of their spaces are either small and Niche like storm front or a completely dead like through social. Their predatory, they rely on having people like us to bully around and their communities die without us
I would imagine that we're all more motivated than average considering we've made the conscious choice to travel the path less taken because we have standards