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I’m not sure but it’s been working wonders for desktop Linux for the technically inclined.
The side fucking up is called “the art of the deal”
Good name for a book.
They could avoid taxes on the proceeds with the deal of the art.
Is it even a competition?
Afaik, lemmy doesn’t compete. It just exists, and makes no effort as an entity to expand.
I’m not even sure if there are individual instances that do anything to seek out users, much less try to take them from other places.
I just bought a domain name yesterday with plans to create an instance for my local county. My killer idea is to have a comminity in the instsnce called “the good old days” where older folks can post their stories. I noticed that is a popular thing on facebook. The instance will not be federated as I don’t want anything but content which is relavent to the county. It should be somewhat self regulating given the topic limitations. I probably won’t even mention federation unless someone else wants to make an instance specific to a certain town or something. Just a way to filter out all the noise on facebook where people can see all tge different news outlets and events from accross the county without being filtered by fb et al.
Stability, reliability, don’t fix it if it ain’t broke.
Some companies have a need to reinvent them every 6 months to justify some middle Manager’s existence so they can pad their resume for the next overpaid job position.
This Is what it looks like when you don’t have that problem
Accurate. There’s significant overlap between Fediverse managers, developers, and users. Everyone’s goals for the platform are always closely aligned.
This actually just describes the main problem in almost every industry these days. Companies are so large and have so many people running them that at each rung of the ladder, priorities are completely different since it’s impossible for someone in middle management to have any clue what’s going on in manufacturing, or vice versa.
Then all of them get overshadowed equally by the monetary priorities of the CEO.
And if they gain a monopoly, they’re able to separate their priorities from those of their users. That’s when the enshitification begins.
As soon as the fediverse becomes an actual threat, the ban hammer is going to come down on anonymous social media
I’m honestly surprised it hasn’t happened yet
How
It would probably be something like: “any social media site made available to US users must verify user identities and legal name and age and comply with US agencies’ requests for user information. Violators will be subject to penalty, including but not limited to economic sanction and imprisonment”
Yes, there would be ways around it and yes, there would be nations who would not enforce it, but there being legal barriers to operating an instance would basically kill its adoption for normal users. I’m really tired of people saying ‘you can just get a vpn’ as if most people would go to any length at all to share memes with friends. The fediverse is already too complicated for most people to adopt before having to circumvent region blocks.
I feel like that would probably Streisand effect
Which would increase their effort to chase it down and make regular people avoid it.
Not that it would deter you, but the network would essentially stop growing and no longer be a real competitor
Couldn’t have social media without Americans.
Actually wait yes can we apply this to Lemmy?
Ordinarily I would be sensitive to accusations of america-centrism, but the US has a tendency of bullying their allies into following their regulatory measures so I don’t think this is just a US problem.
I guess we will see, maybe.
Australia is already trying something like this, under the guise of protecting kids. Under 16 year olds are banned from social media starting in December, which is effectively the same as forcing identity verification. Don’t know if Lemmy will be affected or not. But I’ll ditch this account over giving my ID to “random dude running an instance”.
UK occasionally talks about this kind of thing too. Recently had something come in that caused some web forums to shut down as it was unenforceable for a small forum but the big companies will either comply, pretend to comply or pay/ignore the fines.
The only winning move is not to play.
Anti-Skibidity fr fr no cap
“Neutral jing”.
Pulling a Steven Bradbury
