i think that commented a while after a post was created is par for the course for lemmy; but only on the politically themed posts since lemmy was intended to be political, at its core.

i didn’t expect to see a monty-python/star-trek response to current events; but i’ll allow it. lol

this is what comes to mind anytime i see/hear people decrying tankies. lol

This is the primary reason why I quit Facebook and Reddit permanently.

You hunt down and slash the boxes exhibiting their sexuality? lol

hosting them was such a pain in the ass too, i only did it once and didn’t have enough space or power outlets for everyone; some of them had to play without speakers. lol

You had to take your whole computer to Lan parties.

that shit was a pain the ass to disassemble and heavy; especially if you had huge 20+ crt monitors and had to balance it on your lap because there wasn’t enough space on the table. lol

i rue everyday that i’m not a graduate of starfleet academy and don’t have fully automated gay space communism enabling me to live my best life.

Lost friends and family with I came out of the closet

you don’t even need babes have to pickle tickled. lol

Edit: ok, you can get tired of them, too.

i got my own lesson in those too when i came out. lol

hot babes are the only reason. lol

like how the profit seeking stewards forced people to leave reddit and twitter (and bluesky in the future); the liberal bubble stewards have pushed lemmings away and onto the few minority instances that still remain federated and once lemmy’s code base is forked those minority instances will become a digital cuba or venezuela; ostracized and obscured leftist islands, but without a china or brics that could ever change this status quo.

I find Mastodon is avoiding this problem at least so far…

so too has bluesky… so far

my view is that social media platform enshitification is spurred on for multitudes of reasons and most of them have been around profit motives so far.

reddit began to enshitify as it grew more centralized out of a need to maintain its sizeable userbase and before their profit motive became central to their strategy; as evidenced by their multiple userbase diasporas in the last decade+ before the reddit blackout protest over api fees.

twitter, facebook, et al. have gone through similar diasporas and their expat users are centralizing around other platforms, including fediverse instances, that use their new found leverage from their equally new found majorities to take actions, like defederations, that remind us that there’s always new ways to enshitify.

the fediverse’s design handles well the form of enshitification that comes from profit motives; but the last 30 years proves that there’s multiple forms of enshitification and i think we’re going to learn new forms of enshitification from centralizing examples like mastodon or .world or .ee who will use the leverage given to them by thier relatively gargantuan userbase sizes to dictate the future trajectory of both the fediverse and the lemmyverse.

The problem isn’t that the fediverse isn’t viable. The problem isn’t that it’s “too complicated.” The problem is that the giants of Silicon Valley have spent 20 years convincing us that anything outside their control isn’t worth our time.

it’s been happening for longer than 20 years and; OH BOY; HOW I WISH that people could see that how this type of convincing permeates everything we see and do.

We’ve all seen what happens when social media platforms treat users as a commodity rather than a community.

Creators who built entire careers on centralized platforms, only to see their reach strangled and manipulated by “bonus” programs and algorithms.

Friends and networks erased overnight by corporate priorities and billionaire egos.

Whole communities forced into digital exile because they didn’t fit the new monetization strategy.

this has been happening since the days of bbs and icq; the only thing that has changed is the increased granularity of the scope of the wrecking balls that they unleash on their users in search of profit and the people flocking to other centralizing hubs like bluesky or even mastodon will have to repeat this history.

it looks like you’re getting a lot of mileage out of that post. lol

i paused the video to checkout librewolf and didnt see the dei stuff until just now; i don’t know about any hype, i’m de-mozillaing because i don’t want to get stuck in a walled garden and his anti-dei tirade is a waste of oxygen.

i tried librewolf because of this and now i can see how stuck i am in google’s wallgarden as i am in mozilla’s.

i’m going to have to start de-mozillaing in addition to de-googling.

experience teaches me that your likeability matters more

i still have the yahoo account i created back in the 90’s and i can’t rid of it because of the nostalgia it inspires, so i mostly use it for spam whenever some random site wants me to sign up.