I once had my account banned because I was a member of a server that was banned in that hugely discouraged me from using it for that purpose. I might be in the half dozen servers at the moment none of which I've looked at save for two in the last year and I primarily use it for offsite DMs and even then I strongly prefer signal for people I know.
fluffykittycat
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We have to fight back since the commercialization of the Internet by refusing to use corporate systems. Old school forms are great although I will say the friction of having to sign up for a new account just to post is a pretty big deterrent, being able to just subscribe to a new subreddit makes it easier to explore very wide range of topics all at once, and to have all the newest post brought to you in one place you can check on your work break.
Maybe a hack with RSS or something could have worked but we all use those platforms for a reason, back when they were objectively much better
It seems so innocent at the time we didn't know it was going to get this bad. At least there's broad consensus nothing's going to fundamentally change. We're already taking first step. I'd like to see old school style forums, and also a focus on atemporality. Being able to have conversations with people over different time zones or even different months is extremely useful and something basically you need no internet conversations that we should really lean into the ability to do that. We need to get rid of the culture of shaming people for responding to old posts
and maybe bring back some of the old personal touches like forms signatures but with Federation so you can just make one account and do everything through it if you so choose. Reddit was kind of sort of system that worked like this and let me is now but the feature set was Bare Bones in comparison. We can do better we just need to develop the software
I'd like to see fedi software evolve past just cloning twitter and reddit into more diverse offerings, like forums
we shouldn't allow private tyrants to control us like that
it's sucked since roman times, but now even the good parts are being bled out until controlling and scamming people is all that's left.
yeah no shit. we owe them better than this. it's time we step up and fix the world
Apparently Elon Musk is coming through the Social Security day that's trying to find as many of us as possible, name changes being a rather easy one.
Bring back little websites ran by furries
Cryptography is a human right
Don't let the Christians get up in there and dictate what you can and can't buy with it
We need to homebrew our own printers
I think a lot of them have never known that it was possible, and things up until recently where at least tolerable. But as interest rates stay up of zero and things continue to degrade eventually more and more people will leave. The people with the most technical skills are going first and the cool people will follow and then they average people follow the cool people