Technology Connections (@techconnectify.bsky.social)
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So, unfortunately when I go to Mastodon these days it's a bit of a ghost town. And I say unfortunately with sincerity - there are some things I really liked about the ethos behind it. However, the reason I'm posting this here is that I couldn't put it there without getting instant shit. 🧵
  • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
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    17 days ago

    It’s got a lot of untreated, traumatized people, and frustrated power nerds on it, and both groups let you know it with haste.

    The kicker is, the population is still small enough that they could be easily overwhelmed and put in their place, but you need a real mass of semi-tightly networked people to come over and take over the space, and that’s… just not the way community migrations work. So they can fairly safely gatekeep the space.

    Well, until Threads washes over everything. I don’t want to give shit to Zucks, but Threads will fundamentally change the makeup of the fedi microblog space in an instant, and that instant is growing ever closer.

    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      17 days ago

      You don’t understand why or how platforms like these got made, don’t you?

      If enough people came in to “put them in their place”, the way you describe, this place would basically become Threads (or Twitter) anyway.

      • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
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        17 days ago

        I do know. I just don’t care. I believe in an open internet, not a place set aside for people to live out their Revenge of the Nerds fantasies.