Today’s grumpy take: federated social media as it currently exists is a gated community and lots of people who don’t have to promote anything in order to pay their bills want to keep it that way
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Today’s grumpy take: federated social media as it currently exists is a gated community and lots of people who don’t have to promote anything in order to pay their bills want to keep it that way
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So many folks are in denial about this — sorry friends but the average folks that outnumbers us by orders of magnitude want a centralized service where all their friends hang out.
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@grmpyprogrammer It's a continuous source of frustration. I'm on an instance that defederates from the big names for very good reasons.
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While protecting us from some shocking terrible moderation, it also makes it much harder for the good kind of serendipitous rando chats to happen.
I've got an account on a big name, but I never go there. Just started using bsky for that mental slot.