I wouldn’t mind some of the “normies” joining. I’m a programmer too, and while the programmer/Linux jokes get a little bit of a chuckle out of me I wouldn’t mind some other stuff.
It’s going good so far 🤞🤞
Submitted 10 months ago by TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Pajama@lemmy.world 10 months ago
freedomenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Amen
nehl@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Here I am!
wieson@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Rock you like a hurricane!
WtfEvenIsExistence@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Congratulations, you’ve been defederated. Please do not resist.
TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I really hope it works out as smoothly as this, it feels like advertising sneaks it’s way in somehow though. 😣
callyral@kbin.social 10 months ago
It's not and I'm Lovin' It. The Fediverse I mean. Want to defederate from corporate ads? Just Do It. Have It Your Way and Make Every Second Count.
Really, you just need to Think Different.
Cruxifux@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I haven’t seen any ads thus far on lemmy and it’s pretty great.
faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 10 months ago
Corporations are coming, it’s inevitable, but at least this time we won’t have to deplatform ourselves to have a sensible discussion.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Someone will try and justify corporate investments. And once they get in, they will infest. They ALWAYS play the long game.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
I agree that they will deliberately try to infiltrate, but corporations are notorious for never playing the long game.
monotrox@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
That is why lemmy is decentralized, no one can buy every single instance. and even when a corporation buys the codebase of lemmy, another person can come in and create their own platform that is still compatible
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 10 months ago
Are there any corporations on Mastodon? The most popular part of the Fediverse.
matt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah there is, governments too. It’s not super widespread but they do have a presence.
Due to how federation and anti-viral Mastodon is though, they can’t hijack trends and stuff so a lot will most likely never come.
EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I felt kinda bad for the people who were here when I joined two months ago. They had their own little community which would get quickly overrun by ex redditors. I wasn’t sure if I was a refugee or a colonizer.
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 10 months ago
Being a colonizer or a migrant is up to you 😉
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
If peolle want their own isolated communities, those exist elsewhere. You join the fediverse because you expect it to grow and network.
EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I feel like it’s like discovering a hidden place at a lake that’s really beautiful. You can’t really claim it as exclusively your’s but would still very much prefer it if no one else went there, as selfish as that might be
gaybear@lemmy.world 10 months ago
would you love me if I said I was a refugee
pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Ya
unphazed@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Manifest Netsiny?
victron@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Can we stop the gatekeeping and that normie bs, plz ffs
roboticide@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The gatekeeping is especially ironic because they didn’t use this meme template properly, lol. You know, like a “normie”.
UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
[deleted]icepuncher69@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
How abbout just saying the masses or general public?
Vub@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s certainly starting to show that some people with views who wasn’t here before are starting to arrive. Like people openly trolling, making racist and confrontational comments. Feels pretty bad, it was such a nice haven here.
banneryear1868@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Control measures are inevitable, like account length requirements, etc. I don’t see any way around that to have a usable usergenerated site. A lot of the previous reddit alternatives were full of racism because of who reddit pissed off on the site, but people like that need an audience and they don’t generate good content. The nerds who do always have to deal with trolls.
Vub@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I hope it will be manageable. Heavy moderation is very time- and energy consuming and the people behind the instances today are already under big pressure to keep things in order.
over_clox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But the real question is…
Which came first, the internet or the troll?
unphazed@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They grew together. Look up the origins of “spam” in university Nets.
GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de 10 months ago
Different version:
Only nerds with the worst opinions migrate
Only nerds with the worst opinions migrate
rubythulhu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
controversial opinion; I think lots of companies should host lemmy instances for their own support forums.
Questy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think that news organisations should create their own distribution instances. The BBC has started to set up their own Mastodon server. I would definitely prefer to be able to create my own news feed, direct from source, and selected for greater criteria than how many rage clicks a headline is likely to garner.
victron@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Oh no, do you even lemmy, bro? That’s reddit talk /s
Silviecat44@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I hate the word normie
EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
It’s a nickname. His actual name is Normald
sebinspace@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ok normie
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
ok normie
itsmaxyd@lemm.ee 10 months ago
One time we thought that Google was a cool startup head on against corporate giant Microsoft 😔
krondo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I dont think you know how this meme works
dreadedsemi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But because it’s federated, we can secede at anytime. It’s a fool proof system like the united states.
PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is there a FOSS license that can prohibit code being used for profit over a certain amount?
h14h@midwest.social 10 months ago
No, but there are copyleft licenses that require anyone using a fork of some open-source project for for-profit purposes to subsequently open-source any changes they make.
4am@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lemmy is AGPL. From what I understand, that means anyone running Lemmy (or a fork of Lemmy) needs to make their source code public, even if their code changes are strictly to support their own network infrastructure.
it really doesn’t matter though, as a corporation only needs to implement an interface to Lemmy via ActivityPub protocols; in other words it they could write a completely closed-source backend to use for profit and as long as it can poop out the correct data structures over ActivityPub to allow Lemmy instances to understand it, it will work.
This already happens as we can see and subscribe to kbin magazines, and Mastodon users can be @'d and IIRC can reply to comments via Hoot (or whatever they call it). Kinda wild, but it also leaves the door open to literally whoever.
I think the real interesting question is will a large corporate player be able to maintain a captive userbase? None of the doomsday scenarios play out in their favor unless they can capture users and communities - because then the usefulness of the whole thing rides on their server being available. At that point it’s reddit with more steps - they can do what they want.
Rossel@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
No, that’s against the ideology of freedom. What you can do is dual license with a FOSS and a commercial license.
PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So what happens to both projects that buy into foss to commercial? Are they 2 single licenses then?
zebibit@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Anything that gains too much steam and mainstream attention is ripe for corporate takeover/infiltration. Federation should hopefully keep them at bay for a while.
TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I really hope so, the PR vermin always finds a way to ruin something good. 😣
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
How would that even happen?
Agamemnon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What’s a normie? I don’t think I have seen one yet. /j
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Yeah, but in federated social media you can just pack up and set up a new instance.
You won’t ever need to leave the whole thing behind to disconnect from corporate BS.
TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My concerns the product advertisers attempting to sneak in, bragging or something. It felt rampant on Reddit, so it’s probably left me wary. 😣
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
And if that happens, you can bet your ass there will one day be instance-wide ad-block that auto-block users/instances known for posting ads.
If that becomes a thing, there will be instances that explicitly filter it out.
pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Yo I also worry about advertisers attempting to target me with localised advertisements, which is why I use Borg VPN! Nice try, advertisers, but those “hot milfs” are nowhere near near me, ha!
/parody
pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Yeah I could see myself eventually joining a splinter of the fediverse that is even more rabidly anti-corporate than we are right now. Like constantly blocking shills and instances that refuse to do their own aggressive pruning.