TwilightVulpine

Some of that definitely exists, if even karma score is something that gets some egos inflated, but I think this is a very cynical and uncharitable way to describe it when care for a community plays at least as much of a role.

At the end of the day, even being the mod of a big sub is not much to brag about, nevermind the smaller ones. They are not celebrities, not even to the extent social media influencers are. Most users might not even recognize their usernames without that little tag or looking up the mod list. It’s most of all, voluntary work.

He wants to rebuild his dad’s business in space.

I think people really exaggerated this thing of “power trippers”, and that really only served to turn users to Reddit’s side. While there are a few mods who get too full of themselves, mods don’t actually get to command anyone or any sort of payment. Mods don’t hold a fraction of the power that admins do. And what do mods get to lose? The “privilege” to do volunteer work sifting through the worst things people can post? Is the power to ban someone really that enticing?

And it’s not like the Fediverse doesn’t need mods too.

Really it played out a lot like other kinds of protests. The ones in charge who are depriving people of something pointing fingers at the protesters temporarily inconveniencing them and saying “look what awful selfish people they are”. Which is ultimately what pressures protesters to give in the most.

A lot of people aren’t for or against “the masses”, but rather there are specific people, communities and topics that they want to follow, and they may follow them wherever they thrive.

Personally I’m not too convinced by this idea that “Lemmy is better because there aren’t so many people in it”. I look forward for it and Mastodon to grow. I’d rather if Meta doesn’t get to be the main replacement for Twitter, but if there’s where all the people I want to follow go, then I guess I’ll have to go there too. At least the Fediverse integration might serve as a middle ground so people can follow Threads users without being beholden to Meta.

Unfortunately that is the power of marketing, an already established user base and a low barrier of entry. People who have Instagram accounts already have a Threads account, and people who have a Facebook account already have an Instagram account. It’s much easier to get them to try than it is to get people to sign up for any Fediverse instance.

I just hope that once it opens to the Fediverse, people who are already there can feel more comfortable to make the leap and drop Meta. Because Meta is not going to let the users drive the experience anyway.

It is ridiculous for any company to claim they are entitled to the knowhow of professionals they fired.

I thought people on the Fediverse would be more appreciative of people doing volunteer work to maintain online communities but seems like a lot of users only think of mods when they get moderated or banned, not when the community is healthy and free from garbage.

Can you imagine if only the Fediverse remains standing? Oh how I wish we could live in such a world.

Wow, look at all the nothing I’d lose!

It shows that we are all connected (with gay demons)

Fiduciary duty is an absolute circus. Obligating companies to maximize profits at the expense of the wider society is the exact opposite of how law should work.

We really gotta back decentralized platforms if we don’t want everything to become an overmonetized hellscape where all information and communication is skewed to suit business interests. I wouldn’t pay for Reddit Gold and Twitter Blue but I should send some money to the Lemmy, Kbin and Mastodon folks.

They probably struggle to follow accounts from different instances, but it’s really not any harder than an email address.

Because, especially for artists and creators seeking to publicize their work, it’s not widely adopted enough. They need their work shared to as many eyeballs as possible in hopes to sell. Mastodon is fine for personal use, but it doesn’t fit the business needs of these creators, I can’t blame any creator for staying on Twitter until their inevitable end, because the growing pains of alternatives will be difficult to weather.

That’s just a slippery slope fallacy. While some instances can be more or less defederation-happy, doing it to some instances does not mean every instance who resorts to defederation will eventually exclude all other instances. Many simply want to cut off hate speech and extreme violent content, and not everyone is interested in having sexual content, especially depending on what sort of stuff it is.

It’s alarmism over something that would be normal in most other platforms, which just ban users and groups who post content that goes against the rules of conduct, something that happened even on the tiny niche forums and chatrooms of the past. But rather than being entirely excluded you get to stay in communities that fit your limits. The interaction of instances that are federated will ensure that the Lemmy ecosystem will be less of an echo chamber than reddit itself was.

Unfortunately there are people, especially artists, who rely on Twitter for their career. Few social media platforms are widely used enough and enable viral spread enough to serve those needs. Mastodon unfortunately doesn’t have enough adoption for it, and Instagram can be a lot more fussy when it comes to sharing and discoverability.