this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2022
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I like it a lot. I come here often, it's a good addition to my reddit use, it has some nice people and some interesting content.

I love that it is decentralized, which means that there will always be a server without ads, tracking or bad governance.

Also it feels like being part of Lemmy is being part of something new and novel. The idea of decentralizing services online, away from corporate silos, should be resurrected.

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[โ€“] yogthos@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Platforms like Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, and other are precisely the way social media should work in my opinion. The internet was always intended to be a decentralized system that's not controlled by commercial entities.

We have mountains of evidence that commercial social media platforms are manipulated to serve the interests of the companies that own them, and this manipulation is harmful to the users of these platforms. There is a conflict of interest at play on commercial social media platforms between the interests of the companies that own them and those of the users of the platforms.

[โ€“] SrEstegosaurio@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

I was going to write something but this commet resumes it all. Compleatly agree.