Until capitalism gets so large and unregulated that they can fund and control the government, which is what led to many of those "winner" picks that you describe.
It gets messed up both ways. We have many industries that are degrading because they've reached the limits of what they can innovate and instead are trying to find corners they can cut anywhere they can, while having the clout to get away with it.
Almost like glorification of any economic system is bad, rather than using them for their actual purposes.
People keep trying to use these systems forgetting human greed exists and will continue to exist
Because once these centralized services reach the point of defacto, they always just trying to push more and more of what they want. We're practically hitting a bubble at the moment of every social platform that took over trying to nickle and dime. It's the reason for all of this in the first place.
Facebook - Well it was always crap.
Reddit - killed all the forums, now trying to own all the text as content, making lives harder for it's moderators, and continuing not to pay them for the clearly thankless job. Quality of posts has degraded.
twitter - messed up the entire purpose of their checkbox, keeps trying to find various ways to make money, entire quality of platform quickly degrading due to server migration
Youtube - Has started pushing for more ads, and punishing users who don't watch said ads.
People think about the short-term too easily, and then just kick and scream when it's already too late, and moving requires a ton of coordinated work, and "putting up with", making new things work, because everyone let the last thing get screwed over.
The constant cycle of letting products get ruined and moving on gets annoying after awhile.
It's too easy to say "why not?" and very difficult to word "Because it always ends the same"
Technology is a history of users using things in ways the developer didn't consider. Honestly if it's something that isn't of value to the site, I'd imagine it should be on a report button, not a downvote button.
But you just can't convince end-users to do things the way you want. Either the system let's them do it or it doesn't. And half the time if the system lets them do it, they'll do it even if it sets fire to the system.
I don't think it's of any value to try to change user's choice of using the system, but rather embrace it and find ways to both better enable the system to use it (and perhaps curb some things you don't like about it) and then figure out what went wrong with the original intent and try to reimplement that.
Because a lot of the new traffic is really less passionate about fediverse, and more passionate about getting away from Reddit and Twitter. Plus the friends/communities people will make that come from that group.
You're thinking too short-term and not after things have started to reach some normalcy again. And also that Meta is specifically trying to get in now while those communities are trying to form.
Not if their communities and friends leave for threads.net because by the time the defederate occurs most of the communities either are on threads.net or have threads.net equivilants.
You can't have a community without the community part of it.
Except Meta by it's nature will aim towards Centralization. They're contradictive to the concept. It doesn't even take much thought to see the issue here.
Also as app_priori pointed out, Almost every instance already has a list of defederated instances.
Really can't wait for Gura's new song to be released. It's less an epic and more just a loopable jam song
Also been going to the spwn site and looping Mumei's performance as much as I can
Isn't that just...everything?
Like is there anything they aren't requesting?
It was one of my favorites personally. It's very fun when she starts to get angry and it devolves into silliness and miscommunication.
I also felt like her VA-work sounded very natural for a hologra debut
I'd argue a mix of policies is the best outcome. Despite the praise of Capitalism, every modern country employs both capitalist and socialist policies.
Idolizing these structures is problematic because unregulated they tend to spiral out of control, since at the end of the day they're man-made economic policies, and self-regulation isn't something most people do easily without consequence.
Not sure. I want to say Mumei at the moment, but I've found that for a lot of members I tend to have a harder time keeping up when they stream less.
I started watching Gura and while I love her music, it became just about the only content she does now, with the game streams few and far between for the past few months.
Ame similarly watched a lot of her game streams, but lately it's been a lot of Karaoke and tech streams.
Kindof like Mumei with a balance of the two, in that she has really good singing streams, and her zatsu's are creative mainly for her random RP quirks. It was entertaining seeing her take the moom and rolling with it to the point the original meme doesn't even come up anymore, and also getting everyone to go along with her "Kyu" phase.
I think the main issue is just I don't know what happens when the busy becomes busy, because then I have a lot of time that becomes difficult to fill, and for the most part it makes me fill it with vtubers I really enjoy watching, but couldn't say Oshi.
I've been watching a lot of Fauna recently, who shares time slots with Ame, but I also don't listen to ASMR at all.
So kindof all over the place at the moment. And I still love all of the people i've talked about and watch their streams all the time. Just hard to find one to call OshiI guess.