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atetulo@lemm.ee 11 months agowouldn’t want to run official communication through Mastodon.
It’s a culture thing.
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People cannot think for themselves.
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People are skeptical of open technologies.
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Businesses tend to support passing around money with other businesses. It’s in all of their best interests that people aren’t even exposed to free alternatives.
cricket97@lemmy.world 11 months ago
On Mastodon, instead of trusting a company not to ban you, you have to trust some random terminally online nerd who set up a server not to ban you. It’s not a great solution, just shifts the responsibility.
atetulo@lemm.ee 11 months ago
If you’re really that concerned, you can set up your own instance.
Also, if one instance goes belly-up, it doesn’t take the whole thing down with it.
No, it does more than that if you understand what you’re talking about.
cricket97@lemmy.world 11 months ago
i got banned from an instance and lost my entire account until i begged the owner to unban me for a sec to allow me to transfer my profile.