So i’ve been trying to talk to a friend about the #Fediverse lately and they seem to think that the US Government will crack down on it because Billionaires might get annoyed if users move away from normal Social Media to move across to the #Fediverse. What do you think about this?
I honestly don’t think that it will ever get big enough for billionaires to even take notice. Even if we get 10% of the total social media traffic, which is a massive number in and of itself, the sharks are going to be fighting over much larger stakes.
If the fediverse does somehow manage to get large enough to attract the attention of the pigs that run the farm, I suspect they’ll just clone the (open-source) code, make their own instance running on another protocol, and throw their weight around to get everyone moved over there.
Relying on the judiciary or the legislature is a bad gamble.
@Gutotito I’m pretty sure this part is already happening, META built Threads and Tumblr has already displayed interest in connecting with the Fediverse, it seems like big tech is interested in it. TBH that’s why the confo came up with my friend in the first place.
This. Embrace, extend, extinguish.
I guess nobody remembers the Halloween Memo, because that’s the gold standard strategy for gathering up and locking in users.
@drwho TBH I don’t even know about the Halloween Memo myself, I just know that you can’t be nieve about big tech being interested in smaller things, Look at WhatsApp, Snapchat, or even YouTube; originally they weren’t big tech and now they are known as some of the top things being purchased by bigger bader companies in the process.
It’s a bit of history well worth studying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
@drwho Thank you, It’s always good to look at new things.
@SamXavia The moment this place begins to feel like you’re in a room or other enclosed space that is highly conducive to the production of echoes, particularly one that has been designed and built for this purpose… …oh wait, they’re already here…
@krzschlss I get what you mean, sure Echo Chambers seem like a nice place but it’s always good to have a different opinion, it’s one of the reasons I really support the Fediverse because you can’t choose a certain platform to get Echo Chambered in like you can currently choose Twitter if you hate Trans / Left people, You can choose Reddit if you hate Tech / Everyone else and want to keyboard warrior all day and Facebook / Meta if you want to talk to your Family or post revealing photos to get clicks, people use the current social media as personalities effecting there mental health. I really do hope people just be themselves instead of putting on a face.
That is the whole point of the internet. A decentralised platform for the US military to have a protocol of communication between computers to share information. Just in case someone nukes America. Ironically fediverse follows the same philosophy. The top down approach centralised conglomeratisation of the internet has only existed for decade and half and really took off in the last decade.
As the internet matures, we might see a boom and bust of centralisation and decentralisation of internet services might be a cyclic.
Before youtube existed, people ran their own websites and people post their own videos. In older internet media like podcasts, there is no one place to download a podcast, just download a rss feed off a website.
@threadworms Thank you, Yeah I feel as if the Fediverse was what the original idea of the internet was meant to be and I really do hope we move further in this direction. I see some people mention that they don’t really want it to grow as they feel it will be wreaked by the general public, what I see there concern but things move no matter what and we just have to be kind and welcoming to newer people and hope to keep the Fediverse a great place for people to be instead of the Toxic pit of current Social Media. Thank you for your feedback
what happened with tiktok that they’re cracking down on?
@merde Good point, they seem to be doing better than ever.
The only reason I could see the government moving against it is if there are high-visibility press stories about the unsavory fediverse instances.
@OutrageousUmpire They are already going for Trans People and the Fediverse is currently more Left leaning making the right who are in power most likely hate it so I can see where they would want to try and get rid of it at the moment.
What…
@Izzy They just think this could be a limited time thing that will be taking away because of the us government.
I get it. It’s just absolutely ridiculous.
