If the descentralization of social networks continue, we will have to prepare for the eventual rise of the instances wars, where people will start to fight about which instance is better and which one is weird to be in and so on, but that’s for the future of us all.
Can we just go back to BBS where you have dial in with your land line to post on a board? The difficulty of use acted like an awesome protection from any community growing too large too fast and was super easy to moderate. I just want to pull my socks up to my knees, yell at the clouds, and dial in to the NG BBS…
As long as there are individuals, groups will be sought after and created based on the need of belonging and the need to different from another group
It has already started :) I’d say around 60% of major instances block exploding-heads, burggit and/or lemmygrad. Lemmygrad and EH in turn defederate a shitton of instances as well due to ideological reasons. Most “civility” or “law” related instances block piracy instances. The dbzer0 piracy instance blocks anything seen as too right-wingy cuz the owner is an anarchocommunist or something. LGBT instances are blocking & promoting for other instances to block instances that aren’t too friendly to LGBT or are simply not moderating or even promoting homophobia & related topics. I actually made a tool called federation-checker.vercel.app/ that checks where an instance stands in the federation “war”, so I know what instances to register onto if I wanna see some content that has been blocked by the instances I’m on.
Mastodon is on a decline already. It is different than, say, Lemmy. Mastodon’s contents are produced mainly by mainstream content creators, and they do not migrate from Twitter its counterpart.
A lot of comments are assuming a negative outcome but there could be some fun and positive ‘wars’. Best Instance Photoshop Battle anyone?
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Reminds me of the good ol IRC days.
The kids just don’t know the struggle
IRC was fun, then people chose corporate poisoned simplicity (AOL, MSN) and that spelt the doom for protocols, until now.
Because you’ve been down that road, Neo, and I know that’s not where you want to be.
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feddit.de über Allen!
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I get the sentiment and that is sarcasm and all, but this could still be hurtful to some people. Let’s grow past dick size humor because I know that lemmings are better than that.
Yeah, question their morals or say they eat cats, lol
The way to get over something is to adapt, not avoid it.
It’s funny that dick size is a thing we care about. Some guys get big dicks, some get small ones, some guys let it define them, other guys don’t, some women admit they like big dicks, some don’t admit it, some actually don’t. Life is full of horror and it’s funny.
The more things you have to avoid the worse off you are.
Plus every time someone makes a dick size joke I think about randy marshs dick size formula. The time and effort he spend to make his dick be average size always cracks me up.
Like who cares about your dick size? Relatively few people get to see it anyways and if they judge you for it you’re probably better of without them.
Humor police? No thank you…
I think there will eventually be a “safe space” subfederation for people with a fragile sense of humor. We can all coexist.
It’s called beehaw, pretty much.
lemmy.world and lemmy.ml users competing whos the most generic NPC
pawb.social users not existing
lemm.ee and vlemmy.net users actually being based
Lemmy.zip users hoping the hamster has a few more months of running on the wheel to keep the servers powered until a new hamster can be purchased.
I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee.
sounds lit. do you all take butter and salt with your popcorn?
Have you tried nutritional yeast?
I’m sorry, but I read that and thought “marmite on popcorn?!”
And I found that idea intriguing.
Not quite the same thing as Marmite. Might be a North American thing?
https://www.amazon.ca/Bragg-Nutritional-Yeast-Seasoning-Premium/dp/B00EHVN1S6
Ah, thanks! I’ll be on the look out for this.
hippy
Hah, guilty as charged…
When you play the game of instances, you either get popular or you die. (I don’t think that it’s going to work that way, but with enough popularity corporations are gonna want to fuck with it for sure.)
Die? What is it with assuming that small instances will inevitably die? There are people out there who want small instances, they will keep them alive.
def prefer small batch instances, keep it wierd
I only use ethically sourced, farm-to-table instances.
Nothing like good doers to make the world go around.
I only consume memes in sub-Dunbar communities where each person has achieved at least a red belt in karate.
This is the way!
Same, i think i’ll always be with the weird friends.
“instance wars” is more than a little dramatic.
People will have a preference for different instances. No biggie.
Kbin for the win
Cool, yet another shard
Naah we’ll be the referee :)
Lemmy all the way!
Then I’ll going to self host my own instances.
This is the way. Freedom by design.
Go for it, that’s the beauty of this!
I’m gonna host my own instance, with blackjack, and hookers!
Its actually not that expensive especially if it is a small instance from my very small amount of research
Most future proof solution, actually.
With blackjack. And hookers. In fact, forget the instance!
classy
“…eventually…”
It’s already starting.
