grrgyle

Demon Demon

Federation doesn't definitively solve power tripping. It just reduces its impact.

Huge instances like world do undermine that project, so it's up to us lemmizens (lol) to try and stay independent and spread out.

Lemmy, and indeed the entire Fediverse, offers every user the Bender gambit. You can make your own instance …

It really is that easy. I wasn't sure it would be, but I started up my own instance on a Saturday because I was procrastinating on some work.

I used the Docker method, but apparently Ansible is even easier.

… when the need exists.

Like you already said, it's much easier to separate needs from wants when you just don't go to Amazon. It was a real eye opener for me, how I could just add a tiny bit of friction to my "customer journey" (just don't automatically start my search on Amazon), and my desire for the object would usually just … evaporate.

Like a fey mood had overtaken me, but I managed to shake it.

I guess that's consumerism.

That's vertical integration, and the end result for a virus like Amazon is that, left unchecked, they own everything.

I mean they can make it... don't think anyone would federate with them, though.

Look how they deep fried my boy.

That's people just sharing their opinion freely. Word of mouth chatter is definitely not the same as advertising or even influencing, though of course they try to be.

It's not just ad-free, it's actively anti-corporate, anti-advertising, even anti-monetization. I would go so far as to say even anti-content in some ways. That's a cultural disconnect that goes beyond tooling.

Rofl, Romeo and Juliet is like the definition of a tragedy.

God yeah, I'll be like half way through an article before realising it's just padding out some very surface level details about what I'm looking up. Like the top 3 interesting things about the topic, but never an actual novel, like, human take.

I get what you're saying. This stuff hinges on essentially finding small businesses to run, for example, a commercial PeerTube instance. And then leave it up to the rest of the fediverse if they want to federate with them.

I don't think any of us, or the current devs, would be the ones to add this commercial functionality just because we're not the sort to chase those types of incentives. But who knows, maybe some business will develop a plugin or peertube wrapper, or hell just a whole new thing, and see if anyone federates. 🤷