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  • For me it’s more about something with the potential to undermine the deathgrip of facebook, twitter, etc from our societies, in an attempt to partially address the steady increase in utter braindead stupidity and mindless vitriolic hatred stemming from profit-driven algorithmic control of our broader information ecosystem.

    That requires the eventual growth of a decentralized sister ecosystem of sorts, able to act as a viable competitor. So, to compete with the giants, that’s basically a fairly significant chunk of everyone. On Earth.

    Fortunately you can always just defederate the highest population centers, I imagine that would become very common eventually. Especially if they tried monetization or something, which would probably not be unheard of with larger userbases.

    All that said, I do feel you and also personally like smaller communities. But I’ll just move to one once World gets too big.




  • Minimal. It frankly just doesn’t actually advance his goals very significantly. Nor is he a particularly clever man that thinks of unusual strategies.

    I think his focus is on squeezing his current userbase more than any kind of long term caring about the size of it. Wouldn’t be surprised if he plans to quit his job in the next 5 years and collect a fat severance anyway. He’d rather people not leave, but DDoSing a small chunk of people somewhere else doesn’t really help much.

    This is a random attack, so ask yourself who benefits? For one thing, it’s fun. It also pisses some people off. It also irritates a fairly politically active population.

    Who wants all those things? Trolls, of course. Why are they, specifically, trolling? Varies individual to individual, but mainly it’s about causing pain to others.






  • If you don’t want to be on a large Lemmy, then I recommend you move to a smaller Lemmy. If you always want to be in a smaller Lemmy, then I recommend you make sure it is one where the admins want to remain small. There are many of these. It will take work to find and join one, however.

    But I think it would be more effective than complaining about a service growing big after trying to grow big.


  • It’s not a meme. It’s a paraphrasing of a basic philosophy that runs contradictory to most others in the modern world. You know it when you see it.

    You can give the benefit of the doubt to whomever you like. But this is not some universal open communication platform like some may wish it to be. (we already have one of those, it’s called 4chan) It’s just a social media organization, just like dozens before it. That’s why we have the tools that we do.