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The Reddit Protests Continue, but the Company Has a Much Bigger ProblemThere's a disconnect between how Reddit sees itself and its real value to the world in c/tech@lemmy.fmhy.ml
What's a company secret you can share now that you no longer work there? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 years ago

I used to work at the CIA. We did 9/11

The Reddit Protests Continue, but the Company Has a Much Bigger ProblemThere's a disconnect between how Reddit sees itself and its real value to the world in c/tech@lemmy.fmhy.ml
[–] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So again, it's not valuable to you. It's obviously valuable to the people that keep using it. So it is... valuable.

This might help explain the spectacular launch of Threads in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

They're so gross lol

The Reddit Protests Continue, but the Company Has a Much Bigger ProblemThere's a disconnect between how Reddit sees itself and its real value to the world in c/tech@lemmy.fmhy.ml
[–] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

That's not what "valuable" means.

Companies Think Their Idiot Customers Will Accidentally Cancel Their Subscriptions if It's Too Easy | Trade groups told the FTC a simple "Click-to Cancel" proposal to easily quit subscriptions coul... in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah they want to make it too difficult to bother intentionally unsubscribing.

Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Federation will become part of our cultural language and people will come over at that point.

Why Defederating from Facebook/Meta is So Important in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

They'll start setting standards, other instances will comply, and meta will control (or destroy) the fediverse.

Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You think we can't get people to join lemmy unless our Genius Daddy Savior Zuck brings them in?

Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

Nobody is suggesting that we destroy Threads. We just don't want to let it control the fediverse.

Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 years ago

They will start setting standards that other instances will be pressured to follow. Those standards will be mechanisms to control the fediverse and make it a data-gathering ad & sales platform.

Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] pattmayne@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

This us exactly the threat. They'll start setting standards that other instances will be pressured to follow. Those standards will be ways to control the fediverse and make it a propietary data-gathering and sales/advertising platform just like everything else.

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If I were Reddit or Facebook I would divide and conquer the Fediverse (sh.itjust.works)
 

The only threat to this burgeoning community is the same old divide & collapse nonsense that separates citizens under their overlords everywhere.

I would create accounts and start calling to defederate instances which allow non-polite (or politically incorrect or otherwise offensive) communities.

We didn't just survive the trolls on reddit. We thrived amongst them. We can handle them. We can block them.

I want curatorial tools to curate my own feed. I absolutely 100% do NOT want any admins telling me what I can't read. And going to another instance is no solution if that instance is blocked.

I don't want to be on a purely polite ecosystem, or a purely right-wing-idiot ecosystem. I want access to everybody, and the tools to curate that experience.

The trolls do NOT have the power to take us down. But the admins definitely do.

Welcome to the Defediverse.

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