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I think this decentralization and federation is what web3 is all about, without all the corporations calling everything to do with monkey pixel art that costs a million dollars "web3"

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[โ€“] TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works 119 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Honestly I'm not even sure what the term web3 means but Lemmy does feel... less commercial, which is really refreshing! And I'm noticing alot less criticizism which is excellent. I'm certainly going to be staying here and trying to help it grow in a positive and mindful way.

I get what others are saying about it feeling like how the internet used to be... I'm really excited to see where Lemmy goes. Hopefully it doesn't just end up the way its predecessors have gone! Feels like I'm part of a movement to fight the oppression!! Power to the people woo!

[โ€“] slashzero@hakbox.social 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

What is sort of bothering me is how as it becomes more popular, I've already seen a few people asking about adding advertising to lemmy instances. I hope advertisers are not looking at diminished revenue with the reddit blackouts and trying to move to Lemmy already. I just can't stand ads, and hope to never see ads interwoven with posts and comments.

[โ€“] omni_memer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I suppose the benefit to lemmy is that you could always migrate to another instance if yours starts pulling that shit

[โ€“] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As far as I know, while account migration is technically possible it isnt implemented yet, so if a server decicdes to shut up shop due to lack of funds your account there is lost and only federated content on other instances will be saved.

So once migration of user accounts and communities is implemented we should be able to easily survive waves of server closures.

I do worry that it will eventually coalesce into a couple of ultra-large servers and lose a lot of it's decentralisation though. gotta spread out!

[โ€“] omni_memer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, I suppose creating alts on multiple instances might work as an alternative in the meantime. I donโ€™t know if thatโ€™s frowned upon though.

Completely agree on the last point, though. It is crucial that we spread out!

[โ€“] darkstar@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

I've made about 10 alts so far, just making sure to secure my username in case I do need to migrate somewhere

[โ€“] pivotraze@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago

I donโ€™t believe itโ€™s frowned upon. I have one here on infosec.pub and another on fedia.io. I primarily use infosec.pub though

[โ€“] slashzero@hakbox.social 3 points 1 year ago

True enough. And I know Iโ€™m just a drop in the bucket, but I will do exactly that if it ever happens.

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