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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Honest question, what are the incentives for instance operators to play nice, so to speak? And not just recreate new oligarch safe havens?

It seems like each instance is a miniature zone of centralization and it's still incumbent on individuals to create their own circles of influence. For better or worse that's how we get hivemind echo chambers and I'm not sure it's even in human nature to seek anything else.

Alternatively we have to rescue our friends and families when they start to fall for BS and educate them aggressively on improving the sourcing of their information.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Federation provides some answers. While it is entirely possible to defederate everyone you as an admin disagree with or don't want to promote, most commonly instances pick the option to not defederate all at will, as the majority of people actually prefers to be connected for the most part.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I haven't read the full article due to sign up paywall, but...

First, millions of small business owners and influencers who make a living on TikTok were left to beg their followers in TikTok’s last moments to follow them elsewhere in hopes of being able to continue their businesses on other corporate social media platforms. This had the effect of fracturing and destroying people’s audiences overnight, with one act of government.

How is decentralised social media going to help with this if the entire point of decentralisation is the opposite?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

On decentralized media (Mastodon at the very least), you can move your account and your subscribers to any other instance whenever you want. You move with your audience, and they'll barely notice any change, using the same app to keep following the same person automatically.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Oh cool, wasn't aware of that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And this is why I'm still on .ml there's not a way to move on Lemmy. Yet

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How do we protect ourselves from propagandists and censors? Large, small, popular and individual.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I'm not so sure. Depends if there's a solution to the bots. Bluesky is inundated with them already.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (22 children)

I just wish we had a bit more political balance here... I'm not talking about fascists, but more people that don't blame everything on capitalism would be kind of nice...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Too late, capitalism is the problenz

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (12 children)

Not trying to get into a whole ugly thing, just curious what your pro-capitalism stance is. Because I would definitely fall into this big Lemmy category of seeing 90-905% of modern problems being rooted in capitalism. So I would (civilly!) disagree, no doubt. Doesn’t mean we can’t have a reasonable discussion!

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

It might be good to reiterate (in part) why we're all in here.

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