Der Traum vom gläsernen Bürger...
kevin
joined 1 year ago
Most of the servers running lemmy have federation enabled and open (as you can see, I'm one of those self-hosted instances) and you can just interact with them. Some do have federation locked down, but that's the minority
You are right, but many people use electric cars as an excuse to delay or cancel car-related regulations in cities To the sound of "Why should the city be car-free when electric cars are quiet and don't emit fumes?!", and that's something we have to fight, because in the city there should be no (private) cars needed
"As I've mentioned previously" is my go-to
honestly it would be better than it is now. currently content is in what we call silos or walled gardens. if my grandma posts to Facebook i can't see it because I'm not with Facebook.
If Facebook (/ mEtA) went on the Fediverse, that would also mean exposing any and all content over the ActivityPub standard. Every user can decide themselves if they want to see posts from Facebooks servers, but there would at least be the opportunity to see the content at all.
Also it would make switching away from big platforms way easier, because why would i stay with Facebook, when i can just switch to e.g. tchncs.de or my own server and keep in touch with all my old contacts.
TL;DR Big cooperations federating their content silos would be good, that's why (for the most part) it's not going to happen