• skepticalifornia@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Lemmy and Mastodon seem to be doing the “open Internet” just fine. We should probably not try to draw too many conclusions from what’s happening at Twitter and Reddit, both of which are turning into raging dumpster fires that go beyond just closing down the APIs.

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      That is the part the media doesn’t understand, we don’t need corporations controlling the internet. The days of being stuck behind a corporate-controlled wall are over!

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        Yes, I’m amazed the lack of understanding in the general and tech media about the Fediverse

        I believe enough of us will support Lemmy and Mastodon servers and developers monetarily that the upward growth will be sustained and we won’t need to rely on broken corporations for the majority of the flow of information. The media should be at the forefront of this but most of them just can’t seem to wrap their arms around it.

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        Even beyond corporate media I see a lot of people having this mentality that the Fediverse has to become a behemoth to succeed. We don’t need that, though. There’s no profit motive, so it can actually just exist as itself. No incompetent board members making bad decisions, no selling out to make a buck, just a platform that people can actually use