It's a valid point. We can't expect to be free of corporations and also expect people to maintain servers for free. Running a service costs someone somewhere, and running a massive service can't easily work relying on just donations. I'd be happy to pay a small monthly/yearly fee to a nonprofit to guarantee an independent server, rather than to be a product to be traded.
Astrovenator
joined 1 year ago
For sure, we've been spoiled by by VC-funded slick polished apps for too long. If we want freedom from coporate control we gotta accept some jank.
Hi. I just got here too. The app is bad and it's a little quiet but it seems to be full of nice folk. It's got that feeling of starting fresh.
I sank so so many hours into OW1 in the first two years... I barely touched OW2. Its a hollowed out, soulless imitation of the original. Fuck what Blizzard has become.
Wow it really IS like Twitter!
Joined! I'll post some of my mediocre art there for content
Same. What's kinda nice is that unlike reddit there aren't a hundred posts saying what you wanted to say already, so you don't feel like you are being drowned out
That's what I'm enjoying about it so far too. Content is sparse but that's okay. I'm so tired of being marketed to, of being a product. These open source federated apps are janky and quieter, but they feel more real. These aren't algorithms pushing engagement and outrage or ads every 10 seconds.
Calling his sycophants Muskrats is appropriate though.
This is exactly it. Social media's greatest power is the ability for common folk to organise and rally quickly and easily. That cannot be allowed, so these moves are designed to divide and insulate.
Control and money. They can serve more ads and harvest your data more easily if they control the platform
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Barely a week in and we all get an awesome example of why decentralisation is a good thing