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Wow. Front page of huffpost.com right now. Interesting...

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[-] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Big tech platforms make it easy for everyone to participate. But while we gained simplicity, we lost control and independence and creativity. Every website isn't supposed to look the same. And our expression and activity isn't supposed to just be grist for the data mill.

I remember fondly the days of early broadband, when tons of people would run a server on an old laptop for an IRC bot or a shoutcast stream or whatever. We need that back. I hear about people doing that with Lemmy instances and Matrix homeservers and the like and it makes my heart sing.

Twitter and reddit won't implode. But hopefully they keep all the users who just want to mindlessly scroll through low effort content and the smarter ones join the fediverse.

[-] astreus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

And desire to participate! Commenting on most websites is shouting into the wind. I feel like general engagement has the potential to be better in a decentralised environment.

[-] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Not just shout into the wind bit really engage and LISTEN as well as talking. Reddit used to have that. It's largely gone away in the last 5ish years :(

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