I think you’re forgetting the context of the discussion…

Not them but yes but it’s not a feature of the system, it’s a failure of the humans.

A system designed to be used by humans has an attribute bound to be exploited by humans and it’s the failure of humans for exploiting it.

That’s the problem: for communism to work, it requires perfect beings that act according to how the system is designed. Humans do not do that.

If you think metadata is worthless, I would like to make you aware about Snowden and his revelations. Look them up.

So you’re agreeing with me that it will be abused.

There’s no way that isn’t going to be abused. Some marketing or tracking agency will setup a fediverse server and just collect all data like this for free. Or worse, take advantage of a friendica instance to bombard it with requests for data collection purposes.

RIP mastodon

But it also bears repeating that decentralization by itself has no advantage, either.

Could you expand on that?

Bears repeating: it’s not.

Hopeful that some parts of the population won’t be giving all their data away. There will always be bootlickers (apple fanboys, google lovers, reddit aficionados, Musk-worshippers, …) , people who just don’t know better (too old, uninterested, ignorant, unexposed, …), and people who can’t join due to things like censorship, internet speed, or whatever else.

Normies have to play a part in generating content. Can’t expect a bunch of nerds to talk about sports. But if they’re on Xitter, probably mastodon would be the equivalent platform. They could move their discussions there.

Yeah, drop the name of fediverse platforms in discussions with your friends, share links directly to content on here, share articles about it, but don’t be obnoxious about it - you’re also a part of it, and if people associate obnoxious behavior with the fediverse, they might be less inclined to join it.

What would lemmy bridge to?

Tumblr is alive?

The fediverse needs a non-political, non-US instance that blocks political communities from other servers. Otherwise people who don’t want politics have to spend time curating their experience and can never actually escape it, because some douche will start spouting “OMG LOOK AT THIS POLITICIAN!” in communities about superb owls or something.

The biggest kickstarter goal I know of was the Ubuntu Edge (a linux smartphone) was 30 million and they got 12 million.

Look at the list of most successful kickstarters. There are projects with goals of 1M (books), 100k(table top game), 950k (video game console), and many more. 100k isn’t the world when talking about software like this.

That’s good news. I imagine it will diminish quickly unless the story about TikTok is kept alive. The news cycle is mostly 1-2 weeks. Hopefully it’ll have reached 100k by then.

That’s not huge. One year of employment is nothing for such a product.

Should’ve set the goal at 100k for fulltime employment. These kinds of projects need that kind of dedication

Maybe in the coming 4 years people will finally understand why handing over everything to corps isn’t great. Whether they’ll do anything with that understanding is questionable though. The amount of “but it’s so easy” and “I’m just one person” doomerism is fantastic.

Those are some nice pictures! Are they all yours? Btw, I do wonder if it’s possible to comment on pictures there from here @jakelec@pxlmo.com

Just subbed. Maybe new pictures will pop up in my feed.