We are mainstream now🔥

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• StitchInTime@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I knew I liked those 404 folks. I might need to upgrade to a paid subscription.

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• CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As much as I want to see Lemmy and the rest of the fediverse flourish; at the same time, I hope it doesn’t.

  Once the fediverse becomes popular and gains main-stream attention, the billionaires and political twats will flock towards it and try to monetize it; Morons will flood the fediverse with memes and AI slop worse than !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world (you know what you’ve done); corporations will start spamming ads for their shitty products; and scammers will start setting up bot nets to coerce users into sending them money to their new AI waifus.

  The unbearable weight of all the garbage entering and attacking the fediverse will drive moderators out the door, leaving servers as wastelands of junk. No longer interesting, no longer human. Just trash, like how Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, etc… are today.

  So yes, I’ll welcome friends and family into the fediverse with open arms. But I really hope we don’t start getting too many shout outs

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  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have been seeing an uptick in both slop and RWA trolling recently and have taken it as a sign of rising popularity. I just hope moderators can, and will, be able to keep up with pushing out the toxic elements. I would hate to see the fediverse become Reddit 2.0.

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    • dil@piefed.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      slop and shitposting is fine as long as it isn't the majority of the content, sadly shitpost memes seem to be becoming the majority

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    • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      RWA?

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• Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Great, now we might get some government attention. But we still have an ace up our sleeve:

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  • ook@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What’s that supposed to mean? All of Lemmy servers are open to the public. Anyone can read all the messages even without any accounts? The decentralised parts mainly prohibit shutting down the whole network easily, taking out one server wouldn’t do much to the rest.

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    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For me the decentralization means we can always take our party somewhere else if it gets enshittified.

      Invite only instances are probably going to have to become a thing soon. Like how 99% of Reddit doesn’t let you comment with a new account until you look less like spam.

      But at least here you will always be able to join/start a server to host your account.

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  • lena@gregtech.eu ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t think surveillance is the issue here (what would they spy on?), more so getting shut down. Which is also virtually impossible due to federation.

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• Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  404 without paywall

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• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I bet many of us are subbed to 404 given their content’s presence here. It’s good to see them returning the favour! Time to show that content is not created only on Reddit.

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  • tuckerm@feddit.online ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That's the case for me. 404 was the first media outlet that was actively using the fediverse (Mastodon, specifically) to interact with their readers and share their content. At the same time, I realized that if I was going to start using non-VC-funded social media, I should probably pay for some non-VC-funded news sources, too.

    Especially given 404's main subject matter, I bet there are a lot of discussions on the fediverse that are relevant to what 404 covers.

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    • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s my thought process too.

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• tuckerm@feddit.online ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  WELP, time to go find an even smaller discussion forum! This place really sold out...

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I really wanted to give Lemmy a try, but I’ll be returning to the whiteboard in my office for organic, sophisticated discussion.

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    • tuckerm@feddit.online ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I'm just going to start handing notes to people in my immediate vicinity, like an analog meshtastic. Or a middle schooler.

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  • Sergio@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    tildes.net is still around, lel

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