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How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (ploum.net)
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With Meta starting to actually implement ActivityPub, I think it would be a good idea to remind everyone of what they are most likely going to do.

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone -5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

articles like these are why mastodon and the fediverse will continue to be irrelevant and niche

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As opposed to being crushed under the corporate machine?

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

as opposed to having 100m users in less than a year compared to 1.5m in 7 years

[–] reksas@lemmings.world 4 points 10 months ago

Why would anyone want millions of users to come here? Everything that becomes popular or has potential to make a lot of money is always ruined eventually.

[–] Banana_man@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago

Freedom is the goal with the fediverse, so I'd prefer it stays niche than become like reddit. I used reddit and now sadly Instagram too and the users can't be compared to Lemmy. Instagram is obscenely toxic, I will never doomscroll there again it was worse than reddit, which was also still pretty bad.

However what I really can't stand is the slow restrictions, the watering down of content to the point where it's insufferably bland. I came here to escape that. Post whatever the hell I want to post and browse whatever the hell other people felt like posting. The sincerity of everything is what makes the fediverse special for me.