I joined reddit on the tailwind, so it was all echo chamber, we hate newcomers, gatekeeping, automod frenzy, too many rulebreakers, too many rules, etc I could be wrong, but thats what I imagine it used to be like.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world
      48·
      1 year ago

      A major difference being that the fediverse won’t get that “advertiser friendly” corporate sanitization with how it’s set up.

      It’s nice not being advertised to or feeling like a product.

        • fsmacolyte@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          I think the fundamental question is, as the Fediverse gets more popular, then how will servers get paid for? Here are some possibilities I see for how Fediverse hosting could work at scale:

          • Surviving off donations alone: Possible but in my estimation unlikely, and it could veer into the territory of big donors having a controlling stake or exerting their interests.
          • Instances limiting number of users to what they can afford: This would require the network of instances process to really work well.
          • Big instances selling advertisements: Without oversight or moral commitment, this could easily go towards creepy personal data collection.
          • Crowdsourcing the costs: This would require transparency and fundraising or some other model
          • Hosts financing the operation in other ways: This could also easily get into creepy data collection practices or other dark patterns.

          I hope we come up with some process or plan for avoiding the pitfalls and forging an honest and community-integrating way forward.

    • MTLion3@lemm.ee
      8·
      1 year ago

      Ah yes, the common addition that ruins pretty much every equation. People. People suck 😂

    • Agent_of_Kayos@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      Especially when the public gets to be anonymous. Then they believe they can do and say whatever they want to, no matter how shitty