That and the nature of this community lol. I think everybody reading this would prefer federated/distributed communication over centralized control.

Nazis on a server? Don’t visit that server. Nazis visit your server? You got some simple decisions to make on if your server is going to be a Nazi server.

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As a laptop owner, I can’t make the switch until they offer a toggle or a terminal guide on limiting charging to 60% of battery.

lol wut? Proton vpn sucks on Linux.

Should just introduce a list feature. Share lists of servers and have upvotes on them and subscribe counts and description of the list. So looking into Linux lists, you can see that the top list has most of the communities, a few that are excluded for whatever reason, most people subscribing to that list.

Mostly just talked about Mastodon. And the researcher thinks Bluesky is on the same path as Twitter, given its venture capital investors.

Analogy he used was comparing fediverse to e-mail, and how successful that was.

It seems like Lemmy should offer really easy research data for people to back these claims up. Like just counting “Lemmy sucks” vs “Lemmy is awesome”

I haven’t seen anybody point this out yet. The owners of tech were never in it for the “tech”. It’s just a tool for them to wiggle their way up to the top. Trying to hit the jackpot so that they can wrest control of society from the current “old rich”.