Well it’s the concept of not being fediverse. Point is one great developer running everything is awesome. However he’s tying it into bluesky… which also while it seems great on the surface right now, is still basically positioned that if it sells out it could be just as corrupted as Dorseys previous project

I would say lemmy is in one of the better positions of the fediverse, as far as being useful.

IE IMO the facebook/instagram equivelents you need an insane critical mass to get anywhere, because simply put, in a crowd of 100k in the globe, you probably don’t have your friends/family… IE the people you use those apps to see.

Mastadon… a little bit better as you are looking for general stuff, but still the main drive of twixxer is reading on celebs, noteworthy figures etc…

Lemmy… well sure in 100k people you’ll absolutely find some with interesting discussion on politics, gaming, plenty of memes and cat pictures etc… Obviously without a real huge constant growth we won’t be the ideal place to discuss super niche topics (least ones that aren’t only discussed by a handful of geeks). So barring either super narrowly focused migrations, or major exedus’s lemmy will probably lag behind reddit when it comes to say discussing specific games/movies, but will continue to have great content in the overall gaming/movie/meme topics.

It’s the porn paridox. Porn gets users. Advertisers pay per user… but won’t pay anything if there’s porn. Users without advertisers or subscription costs are worthless.

There’s tons of alternatives out there now that are as good or better.

Are they as popular, or the default use. How many “alternatives” are actually just piping through chatgpt.

Controlling information means getting control of the defaults, the ones people are used to using.

Which I agree with… IE I like the system of “your camera catches a hit and run”, you can go knock on their door, ask them to share the footage with you… and you give it to your lawyer, cops or insurance adjusters as you see fit.

What people like me don’t like is the idea that the cops decide to search your permission, use your footage to prosecute a crime you wouldn’t want to. Imagine the same scenerio… except instead of a hit and run… lets say it was say someone delivering pot… or a hispanic person just going home for the day, and ICE was looking for someone to bother, etc…

Point is we’re all happy to be witnesses to crimes that hurt people. but we also know you give cops too much power… and you’ll find horrible things happening

and sadly, the amount of people who use chatgpt to try and get factual information, is quite high… which makes this even more terrifying. It’s about systematically gaining control of communication and information.

Long and short… Pretty much all the big tech heads sat in the front at trumps innaugeration, including Zuck. Shortly afterwards there were a bunch of coincidental “bugs” of things like, all results being hidden when searching for democrats and LGBT, and people being set to follow trump.