@techlore The Internet was just that way, before 1995.

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Exactly! Fight for your freedom.

@techlore The fediverse is how it all should be =)

@techlore and yet, I am afraid that if the fediverse became big enough the billionaires would found a way to enshittify it. Or at the very least, they would try their hardest.

@techlore Right!

@techlore And quite boring.

@techlore@social.lol i feel like we also should not just make a social media that's not owned by billionaires but also one that promotes meaningful connection, human interaction, real life interaction, and minimizes addiction.

even if we have our own thing we kinda still copy the addictive design too and its not as revolutionary as it could be.

And please support the admins and developers and maintainers with money, if you can afford

Cc @techlore

@techlore Not sure if I agree. Oh wait a sec, I might agree actually.

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power to the towns ⌂⌂

@techlore cat's out of the bag. Everything techwise on fedi is open source. Anyone can insantiate a server. They cannot stop fedi anymore, just like nobody can stop torrents

@techlore I'd even go on to say that this is how it was before MySpace, Twitter, Facebook & Co, In the 90s, and first half of the zeros (2000s) the web was decentralised. The biggest focal point might have been search engines like Yahoo, Altavista and Google.

@techlore not the Ruby on Rails part though

@techlore crazy how many interactions you can get on the fediverse even tough way less people use it compared to the big social media platforms

Qp @techlore it is also how the world should be

@techlore I would say to be more specific "wealth hoading, unmoral, and unethical billionaires". Not all billionaires are bad. For example, the Costco ceo intentionally tries to keep their food court food cheap. And in recent instances tried to resist the DEI removal which I find very reassuring. Although it may be a public image thing for them I think that this is still a net postive as a whole. The ceo of gas companies can go shove it where it don't shine thou.