The tech press is nearly worthless as anything other than a press release service for big tech and the rich techbros who own it.
Any cool tech publication worth their salt would have been writing articles about how cool Mastodon is not trying to help out their buds at Bluesky cash in on their investment by casting shade for no reason on Mastodon.
Honestly... almost 10 years later most of those points are still pretty valid.
I agree with all but #2 (mostly because that defeats the entire purpose of a decentralized platform) and #4
But I also believe that it can't go mainstream. If it did that would ruin what many went to these style platforms to avoid.
I believe the same thing with the Lemmy as well, if it became mainstream, it'll just ruin what is already here.
I can't say much on that though, since I was one of the "refugees" that came in around the time that the core ecosystem of lemmy started changing. So I'm sure some of the OG lemmy members feel the same about us.
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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 20 pts · 138d
The tech press is nearly worthless as anything other than a press release service for big tech and the rich techbros who own it.
Any cool tech publication worth their salt would have been writing articles about how cool Mastodon is not trying to help out their buds at Bluesky cash in on their investment by casting shade for no reason on Mastodon.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 138d
Well, he got one thing right: "tooting" hasn't taken off.
doodledup@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 138d
Is Mastodon still a thing? I haven't heard from it in a while.
gjoel@programming.dev · 18 pts · 138d
It probably has a user base an order of magnitude larger than Lemmy, so... Barely?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 138d
Yes?
Pika@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 138d
Honestly... almost 10 years later most of those points are still pretty valid.
I agree with all but #2 (mostly because that defeats the entire purpose of a decentralized platform) and #4
But I also believe that it can't go mainstream. If it did that would ruin what many went to these style platforms to avoid.
I believe the same thing with the Lemmy as well, if it became mainstream, it'll just ruin what is already here.
I can't say much on that though, since I was one of the "refugees" that came in around the time that the core ecosystem of lemmy started changing. So I'm sure some of the OG lemmy members feel the same about us.
Ioughttamow@fedia.io · 2 pts · 138d
Tell that to my beans and rice!
jtrek@startrek.website · 10 pts · 138d
Centralized platforms have obvious and severe problems. Unfortunately, most people don't care.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 138d
Surviving but not exactly thriving sadly.
Pika@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 138d
I love the cross posts: 3 hours, 3 hours, 3 years.
I almost responded to the 3 year post, I had to do a doubletake.
j5y7@sh.itjust.works · -6 pts · 138d
The fewer people who know about Mastadon and Lemmy the better.
DeckPacker@piefed.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 138d
No