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You’re touching a sore topic. Hence the downvotes, many that have bought into the fediverse, believe (in a religious cult way) that its architecture won’t be taken advantage of by bad actors. Even though history has proven the opposite.

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Lucia@eviltoast.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Reminds me of this comment by one of the Lemmy devs: lemmy.ml/comment/6744852

Technology won’t save us if we allow unethical companies to mess with us.

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- phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Spot on… but we have very little power to stop them, unless you are comfortable with the size of Lemmy today.
  
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phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I get that cult feeling for sure. There is a lot less nuance here. I’d be curious of the average demographic because I see a lot of naivety that’s probably linked to age & experience.

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- Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s such a reductive sweep of a whole userbase. It’s not because you have a negative outlook that everybody has to be like you.
  
  People are thrilled to try and build something new and people like you come and shit on them to try to recreate reddit.
  
  At the very least, people are trying to take back a part of the internet that corporations controlled for more than a decade. So it’s normal that when a megacorp come and try to muddle the water, people are refusing that because they know their M.O.
  
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  - phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    People are thrilled to try and build something new and people like you come and shit on them to try to recreate reddit.
    
    I’m not stopping you. If you want to re-lean the lessons of the past because you ignore those that experienced them, feel free. You can’t design a system ripe for corporate takeover and act shocked when it happens.
    
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    Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You are advocating for Lemmy to be exactly that, a takeover from a big corporation. This is the exact reason why people don’t want to federate with Meta.
    
    You want to redo the same exact thing that we did 10-15 years ago, expecting a different result.
    
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