Trifictional

It won’t be like this forever, simply growing pains of a brand new rapidly growing platform.

And done. I love federation.

Let say you comment somewhere that you make minimum wage, their algorithm picks up on it and now they have you as a low wage earner in their database.

This is a massive over simplification but illustrates the point.

I switched from my lemmy.world account to this one because I assumed this instance would defed from meta.

This article has been circulating around the fediverse and I think it greatly illustrates why it’s so important to defederate from large corporations before they can get a foothold. It’s about so much more than just them getting our data.

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

Yea but the difference is most instances have ethical reasons for banning certain content.

Meta could randomly decide anti-meta content doesn’t belong on their platform. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is already the case.

And as far as I can tell it’s just pictures right now.

Porn is literally what drives technology innovation.

Porn on Reddit was probably a good 10-20% of all it’s traffic.

As history has shown, a lot of the features that come to Lemmy will be added because porn. Embedded videos for example.

I’m 100s of thousands behind all my peers who bought before the pandemic now because of this.

It’s likely that I’ll never catch up to them despite having a higher paying career.

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