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Comment on I've noticed my boomer parents using Instagram and tik tok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook.

Synnr@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Facebook was all those things in the beginning.

Reddit was all those things in the beginning.

Twitter was all those things in the beginning.

The Internet in general was all those things in the beginning.

I’ve never used IG/TT but I assume they were all those things in the beginning.

Lemmy will probably be said to be most of those things in the beginning.

With age comes wisdom, once you’ve seen the pattern happen enough times, which can only come with age.

Sincerely, One of those old people.

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velvetThunder@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You can still setup your email server and send / receive emails without adds.

So lets hope that it doesn’t end in a single corporate Lemmy instance with its own fork that defederated everything else but has most of the content.

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- Synnr@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You can, but it takes a lot to set it up and keep your email reputation solid and DKIM/SPF records, and Spamhaus and Google/MS are basically those controlling corporations, for email.
  
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Veneroso@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You’ve hit the nail on the head.

The Internet is fine, until you try to monetize it.

You can grow with membership, donations, site perks, but it’s slow growth.

Or you can go for a big check. And sell questionably sourced boner pills, online therapy, and vpns to obscure the fact that you use the site.

These sites are all great until people who invested expect a return.

Time for a government run social media platform?

Or maybe something similar to PBS but for social media? Government grants but independently run and crowd funded.

Free speech but not freedom to hate.

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