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  • It’s a better, more usable platform than mastodon

    I haven’t yet heard an explanation for this that makes sense. It looks more like Twitter and it has VC money behind it. That’s it, as far as I can tell.

    I wish more than people treated these platforms as disposable like they are.

    It would be easy if they were actually decentralized. The way it is now, if you leave, you leave all of your friends. Getting all of your friends to leave with you is a ridiculous task. You can’t even get 3 of your friends to agree on where to eat for lunch. Try getting all of your friends to follow you to a different social network, where they have to create new accounts, etc. If you have that kind of clout, you should start a religion.


  • I’m not trying to convince people to use FOSS here. I’m explaining how users of FOSS aren’t “consumers”. It’s understandable that you’d make demands for a service which you are paying for. In the case of FOSS, you’re using a free service, so you can threaten to take your “business” elsewhere, but it makes no difference because you aren’t contributing to the project in the first place.

    Imagine if a user of Wikipedia started making demands about what features the site should have, how it should be run, etc. Somebody who had never donated or even edited an article. What do you think the reaction would be?