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• secret300@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Centralized and private = enshitification

  Self hosted and federated = not prone to enshitification

  Idk how simple it has to be for people but clearly I’m over estimating people

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Okay. Now, explain the concept of enshitification. And do it using terms that regular folk won’t find crass.

    You know how conservatives live in this bubble where they don’t even see their racism because it’s so normalized? We’re interacting within a bubble where everyone has a very high level of technical competence versus the average person, so we fail to understand just how tech illiterate others are.

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    • Zink@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Not just tech illiterate but also advertising illiterate. The regular folks I know seem happy to wade through endless platform ads and influencer sales pitches. Enshittification can really be a slowly boiling frog type scenario.

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    • secret300@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Company focus on profit. even if mean overall experience get not gooder

      I dumbed it down to caveman speech for those that still wouldn’t understand. It’s a simple concept all of use that have used the Internet in the past year have experienced.

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      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The usual suspects couldnt care less. The more convenient it is the better. No matter how bad the future wil be.

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      elon musk bought twitter and turned it to shit (or even more shit). elon (or someone else) could do that with Bluesky too, but can’t with Mastodon.

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      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        So that’s impossible with the fediverse? No way a company like Meta could have a fediverse platform?

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• HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Twitter was bluesky before musk bought it, federation ensures that can’t easily happen to mastodon.

  That’s it.

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Cool. Now give me an argument why my mother would care about this fact.

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      maybe not your mother, but anyone who left twitter recently (because musk) should understand. that’s who we are talking about.

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      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Let’s hope it dies quickly

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    • capital@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Is she looking for alternatives?

      If so, it sounds like she understands Twitter turned to shit and would be smart enough to not want that to happen again.

      If she’s not looking for alternatives it sounds like she’s fine on Twitter.

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      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        This was an example for someone that couldnt care less about twitter and social media politics.

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  • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That will just make them stay on X.

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• index@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Can you explain the benefits of the fediverse over a centralized private site to a regular person in 5-second quip that will convince them that the relative complexity of using the fediverse versus BlueSky is worth the effort?

  Billionares with mega yacht fleets are choosing bluesky over mastodon.

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  • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Like it or not, a regular person doesn’t give two shits about that.

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    • index@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Talk for yourself, the average person does indeed care about the environment. In the past years there have been massive greenwashing campaigns from companies trying to please the average customer.

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      • Ashtear@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Man, I wanna live in your neighborhood. I’m surrounded by bougie people or people with bougie fantasies. They talk all the time about drinking wine on a boat.

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      • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah because it doesn’t cost them anything to say they “do their part” when they make token “commitments”. It’s not because the average person gives a shit. Give them a choice - $5 more an hour, or instantly and forever solve climate change and see how many people would choose climate change.

        People complain about having to sort trash before throwing it out. Saying “most people care about the environment” is extremely naive.

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• gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  5-second quip

  Someone like Musk is impossible here

  Freedom from tyrants, maybe

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• Jeffool@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It gives space to do servers based on specific interests if you want. I’m part of a game development server, and my “Local” tab has people on my server often talking about, and showing, things that are related to game development. And I can still follow anyone from any other Mastodon server too.

  If you’re into video games, film, maybe a specific genre of music, you can have an instance dedicated to that. (It might already exist.) It’s like a virtual neighborhood, or forum. Remember forums? Those were nice. They cultivated a sense of community which made people a little more responsible in their attitudes, it feels like. Maybe that’s just nostalgia, but I like the server I’m on. It’s got friendly people I can talk to without feeling the need to fill my follows with them.

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  • Wiz@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes! I’m on a local regional server that is nice. I like that it’s locally owned and operated, and we can talk local news and events.

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    • Jeffool@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You know, that feels like a pretty great use case.

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      • Wiz@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I should have made the obligatory link to http://mastodon-near.me/

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  • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh so just like Discord, why would I need something new, I already have Discord.

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    • Jeffool@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sure, but with that philosophy, why use a microblogging system at all?

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