I’ve checked the frontpage from time to time just to monitor what’s changing, but I have yet to log in.
Attempting solidarity pragmatically.
I don’t believe in imaginary property.
I’ve checked the frontpage from time to time just to monitor what’s changing, but I have yet to log in.
It’s a distilled version of ‘the wisdom of the crowds’. With all the dog piling that comes with reactions to things that are pointed at the wrong audience. There’s generally some people with baggage in there somewhere who will take issue, and you get downvoted.
However, what’s always interesting about these platforms is where good ideas rise, where they come from, and how controversial they are, all of which you lose with the twitter/mastodon architecture.
It may be easier to find your crowd, but how useful is that to you depends on what you use your online presence for.
I’ve got 2, largely out of curiosity for what defederation meant as far as user perspective.
When exporting comes online I’ll likely make an effort to spin up an instance if it’s still feasible… So there will be a 3rd cake?On the positive side I don’t think you’re going to find many people wanting to sock puppet mild takes and noise rock.
Probably true. it’s the agencies who are desperate and likely to be looking to chatGPT to outsource ad copy who are going to be looking to capitalize.
No community is really above being targeted, because the good campaigns done by people in the niche tend to be indistinguishable from good posts.
This is near inevitable if this platform takes off.
Advertisers gonna advertise.
One can hope, even as far back as Usenet the overall general self interest is always a pile-driver to the platform.
I think we’ll all be around to find out. Whether they end up federated with everyone else is up for debate, but the products still follow the eyeballs.
Advertisers especially are going to note how high engagement is compared to the other platforms, the rest will take care of itself eventually.
Isn’t the key operating word here business?
With no advertising on the line and no operations currently in place operating at anything but a loss there isn’t a commercial interest at stake.
I think long term someone will come up with something. How hostile the community they arrive to?
Entirely up to how well we remember how it went the last time.
The idea is to remove profit motive, and distribute the actual costs to the users or admins.
Same way as any enthusiast could have run their own BBS back in the day. The perk now is they’re linked together.
I would be shocked if it stays like that forever everywhere, but since the early days there’s generally been some way to eat the cost.
Ole Brent is going to find the terms of entry a lot less favorable.