I remember duplicate communities seemed like it would be a problem, until you experience it and realise it's actually a feature of the fediverse.
I was just so used to the centralised mentality. I honestly have a hard time putting myself back in that headspace…
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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.
Definitely. Another similar trick I used to do was to write down the objects in my agenda under "things I wanted to buy." Sometimes just the act of writing it down gave me the feeling of having fulfilled the desire in some weird way.