The problem with the world wide web is there are far too many markets, and far too few communities. Markets have monopolized our time and have turned our attention into wealthy empires. It's not because platforms were built on the wrong protocol.
We don't beat the techno-oligarchs with a decentralized system. The World Wide Web *is a decentralized system*.
We beat them by building more communities (and rebranding the ones we have that work).
More tomorrow(?) 😴
So I agree with the overall sentiment, but I feel like the reason I dislike “microblogging”, which is to say Mastodon, Threads, Twitter, etc is highlighted as a positive in the first post.
something that signals “I am more than just a content creation machine for a corporation!”
It could be a status symbol for all the right reasons.
I care about talking to people, not a person. The Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin/Reddit style of conversation (forum?) is just a better way to get people together to talk about things. You don’t have to be someone special with a “status symbol”, you don’t have to be “content creation machine” for anyone.
I say this because while conceptually I’m glad that the whole Fediverse and ActivityPub can talk to each other, we’re just not having the same conversation.
So I agree with the overall sentiment, but I feel like the reason I dislike “microblogging”, which is to say Mastodon, Threads, Twitter, etc is highlighted as a positive in the first post.
I care about talking to people, not a person. The Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin/Reddit style of conversation (forum?) is just a better way to get people together to talk about things. You don’t have to be someone special with a “status symbol”, you don’t have to be “content creation machine” for anyone.
I say this because while conceptually I’m glad that the whole Fediverse and ActivityPub can talk to each other, we’re just not having the same conversation.