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How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (ploum.net)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/fediverse

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With Meta starting to actually implement ActivityPub, I think it would be a good idea to remind everyone of what they are most likely going to do.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

articles like these are why mastodon and the fediverse will continue to be irrelevant and niche

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

As opposed to being crushed under the corporate machine?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

as opposed to having 100m users in less than a year compared to 1.5m in 7 years

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

quality > quantity

[–] capital 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh stop.

There are several communities I follow that are either husks of what exists on Reddit or aren’t here at all.

I wish I could just get everyone to move but it just isn’t happening.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

does sub have 141 million users

[–] capital 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No.

But to participate in them, I must go use one of the most popular websites in the world.

It’s almost as if there will be a good subset of users from almost any website. Which is worth federating to access.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

is it worth federating with genocide enabler

[–] capital 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes.

You can already access their resources using IP and DNS.

I want to treat ActivityPub like plumbing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

._.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Why would anyone want millions of users to come here? Everything that becomes popular or has potential to make a lot of money is always ruined eventually.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Freedom is the goal with the fediverse, so I'd prefer it stays niche than become like reddit. I used reddit and now sadly Instagram too and the users can't be compared to Lemmy. Instagram is obscenely toxic, I will never doomscroll there again it was worse than reddit, which was also still pretty bad.

However what I really can't stand is the slow restrictions, the watering down of content to the point where it's insufferably bland. I came here to escape that. Post whatever the hell I want to post and browse whatever the hell other people felt like posting. The sincerity of everything is what makes the fediverse special for me.