The problem isn’t that the fediverse isn’t viable. The problem isn’t that it’s “too complicated.” The problem is that the giants of Silicon Valley have spent 20 years convincing us that anything outside their control isn’t worth our time.
it's been happening for longer than 20 years and; OH BOY; HOW I WISH that people could see that how this type of convincing permeates everything we see and do.
We’ve all seen what happens when social media platforms treat users as a commodity rather than a community.
Creators who built entire careers on centralized platforms, only to see their reach strangled and manipulated by "bonus" programs and algorithms.
Friends and networks erased overnight by corporate priorities and billionaire egos.
Whole communities forced into digital exile because they didn’t fit the new monetization strategy.
this has been happening since the days of bbs and icq; the only thing that has changed is the increased granularity of the scope of the wrecking balls that they unleash on their users in search of profit and the people flocking to other centralizing hubs like bluesky or even mastodon will have to repeat this history.
