Technically true, but in practice, it’s very vulnerable to conglomeration of power by a few. Social media, for one: it’s not exactly a matter of quality to get users to use your platform. Beyond a certain threshold of minimum quality, people use and stay on a certain platform because the people they know are on it, such that it becomes a chicken and egg problem. Other than that, Google have such a ludicrous market share of web advertising (which unfortunately remains the primary method of monetising the web) that it’s very difficult to not use Google’s advertising, giving them immense power to surveil and monitor people. Google Chrome, which remains the most popular browser for reasons that elude me, has so much sway over the internet that it had the courage to even propose the idea of WEI. The infrastructure on which the entite internet runs are controlled by just a handful of massive ISPs, yet another centralisation of power.
Posting something in a public forum and having that be posted elsewhere is not bad for privacy. What’s bad for privacy is social media megacorps installing apps that extract unreasonable amounts of personally identifying data and selling those databases to the highest bidder.
Yes. I personally think the biggest instance should have at most a quarter of user base. They have a lot of authority in Lemmy now and can rule out other players very easily unfortunately.
Most lemmy instances have the same UI and most people use apps for lemmy…
Also you don’t have to worry about federation, thats for your instance admin (Wintermute) to worry about. If you want to be federated with basically everything Shitjustworks is your choice
I do have to worry about federation of my instance mods decide to have a feud with another instance where I subscribe to subs. Also the UI is wonky for linking to different instances, like I’m never logged in when clicking on a link to a different instance. It’s just very crude right now. Plus discovery is kind of a pain, topics get spread over different instances…
There is none yet that I know of.
But I think something has to be said as well: the problem with copying to the T the most popular social networks is that those are designed to be deliberately predatory and addictive, many parts of their design is implemented in alternatives without even thinking what it really means for the users, because it has become second nature to us and they also feel good, but are mostly detrimental exactly for that and I’m the first to say that I keep falling for it, spending hours on end on my phone. Think infinite scrolling, instant notifications, etc.
While it’s good to have the option, if we want a healthier social media experience, it doesn’t suffice to decentralize it, we also need to think of at least better defaults, then let the users decide for themselves if they want a more addicting experience
Eh, yes and no. I personally loathe that type of media but certainly several hundred million people do not, so it would be nice if there was an alternative for them.
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To be clear, Fedi is basically the opposite of private. Every post you make is archived on some 25k servers. Even your DMs.
Also it’s entirely dependent on your server admin and what kind of info they are collecting.
If you want private social media, Signal stories are pretty much all we got, to my knowledge.
The web is decentralized, social media, which is a small part of it, just isn’t. (Which consumes loads of traffic)
Technically true, but in practice, it’s very vulnerable to conglomeration of power by a few. Social media, for one: it’s not exactly a matter of quality to get users to use your platform. Beyond a certain threshold of minimum quality, people use and stay on a certain platform because the people they know are on it, such that it becomes a chicken and egg problem. Other than that, Google have such a ludicrous market share of web advertising (which unfortunately remains the primary method of monetising the web) that it’s very difficult to not use Google’s advertising, giving them immense power to surveil and monitor people. Google Chrome, which remains the most popular browser for reasons that elude me, has so much sway over the internet that it had the courage to even propose the idea of WEI. The infrastructure on which the entite internet runs are controlled by just a handful of massive ISPs, yet another centralisation of power.
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Posting something in a public forum and having that be posted elsewhere is not bad for privacy. What’s bad for privacy is social media megacorps installing apps that extract unreasonable amounts of personally identifying data and selling those databases to the highest bidder.
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What kind of privacy do you expect when the goal is to post something on a public forum?
Isn’t blogspot a centralized service?
No, WordPress and Blogs can be federated, lemmy.world is becoming a centralized service…
How lemmy.world becoming centralized ?
Lots of defederations, and like two thirds of the total users are there…
Currently, they have 13k monthly active users while Lemmy has 37, so not too bad
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats
Yes. I personally think the biggest instance should have at most a quarter of user base. They have a lot of authority in Lemmy now and can rule out other players very easily unfortunately.
Seems reasonable. Currently, they have 13k monthly users while Lemmy has 37, so not too bad
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats
The UI for different Lemmy instances sadly is ass. Such a bother to navigate this space, also with the constant federating and federating …
Most lemmy instances have the same UI and most people use apps for lemmy…
Also you don’t have to worry about federation, thats for your instance admin (Wintermute) to worry about. If you want to be federated with basically everything Shitjustworks is your choice
I do have to worry about federation of my instance mods decide to have a feud with another instance where I subscribe to subs. Also the UI is wonky for linking to different instances, like I’m never logged in when clicking on a link to a different instance. It’s just very crude right now. Plus discovery is kind of a pain, topics get spread over different instances…
What’s the Fediverse Snap/TikTok alternative?
There is none yet that I know of.
But I think something has to be said as well: the problem with copying to the T the most popular social networks is that those are designed to be deliberately predatory and addictive, many parts of their design is implemented in alternatives without even thinking what it really means for the users, because it has become second nature to us and they also feel good, but are mostly detrimental exactly for that and I’m the first to say that I keep falling for it, spending hours on end on my phone. Think infinite scrolling, instant notifications, etc.
While it’s good to have the option, if we want a healthier social media experience, it doesn’t suffice to decentralize it, we also need to think of at least better defaults, then let the users decide for themselves if they want a more addicting experience
There is currently no service in fediverse to replace tiktok, instagram reels and YouTube shorts.
Just going out on a limb here but maybe that’s a good thing.
Eh, yes and no. I personally loathe that type of media but certainly several hundred million people do not, so it would be nice if there was an alternative for them.
Same. I’d rather they not exist, but if they must, better that it isn’t under big tech’s grubby palms.
couldn’t agree more. but what about snapchat though?
And thats good. There is no need for such a thing.