This has probably been posted already, but this article came to mind when reddit entered its death spiral. An interesting observation on the rise and fall of social media.
This has probably been posted already, but this article came to mind when reddit entered its death spiral. An interesting observation on the rise and fall of social media.
I hope you’re right. I’m betting on the Fediverse, and the fact that it is not corporate owned and can be forked anytime it needs it. I’m hoping that really all it needs to run is servers, moderators and administrators willing to moderate and administer. I’m hoping that the lack of corporate involvement allows it to continue and be a place where we can actually build communities.
Not corporate-owned…yet.
In my experience, which is pretty similar to the author’s, it always finds a way.
Until then, pull up a chair.
Agreed, it does seem to always find a way. Hopefully it takes longer due to the nature of each instance being separate. The recent apoplexy at Threads joining the Fedivervse seems to indicate that many users are aware of the need to not have anything to do with any monied interests beyond server costs.
As an aside, we need to do away with the idea that corporations are people. We need to remember that they are run by people but are not people themselves.
YEP. The US “corporate personhood” law has always struck me as one of the most on-the-nose examples of dystopian capitalist BS, tbh.