For one thing, everything we say and do is snatched up by these tech firms. For another given the feudal nature of moderation lemmy will never compete with big tech and get the critical mass needed as it’s currently operated.
I wouldn’t call it not great, but without some changes it’s just a small alternative that will be put upon by the governments sooner or later.
A town square requires free speech. A majority of the free speech instances have been mass defederated and silenced. Lemmy is ideologically captured and cannot be a town square until this ends. I’m sure someone will respond with a Karl popper quote saying that lemmies censorship is good actually boar blar
You’re kind of missing the point of the fediverse though. You can always join another instance. You can always create a new account. You really can’t be censored. On the other hand corporate controlled social media can silence and ban you to the point where you’re just shit out of luck.
I get that in theory u can always make a new account or join another instance or even host ur own but if certain speech is disallowed and defederated from all but the fringe then the fediverse still fails as a town square.
What do you mean by that?
For one thing, everything we say and do is snatched up by these tech firms. For another given the feudal nature of moderation lemmy will never compete with big tech and get the critical mass needed as it’s currently operated.
I wouldn’t call it not great, but without some changes it’s just a small alternative that will be put upon by the governments sooner or later.
I dunno. I don’t really want to explain.
A town square requires free speech. A majority of the free speech instances have been mass defederated and silenced. Lemmy is ideologically captured and cannot be a town square until this ends. I’m sure someone will respond with a Karl popper quote saying that lemmies censorship is good actually boar blar
You’re kind of missing the point of the fediverse though. You can always join another instance. You can always create a new account. You really can’t be censored. On the other hand corporate controlled social media can silence and ban you to the point where you’re just shit out of luck.
The the defederating is a problem though I agree.
I get that in theory u can always make a new account or join another instance or even host ur own but if certain speech is disallowed and defederated from all but the fringe then the fediverse still fails as a town square.