pannacotta__

You're a moron. Piracy is not stealing because nothing is ever taken from the copyright holder, unless you're going to argue that a theoretical purchase is being stolen. By which logic, deciding not to buy something is stealing.

A guy on twitter who's kinda funny.

My main problem is that there just isn't anything I actually want to engage with on Mastodon. Most of the communities I would engage with simply don't exist there, or only exist there in minute quantities.

Absolutely wild that this works lmao, ActivityPub is crazy

To be fair, Reddit is a lot bigger than any Lemmy instance, and Lemmy instances have the benefit of being decentralised, so the load is on many different servers owned by different people as opposed to one group of servers owned by one company.

Somehow I doubt it's even that. The guy's just a braindead, incompetent moron. I don't think the fucker's even smart enough to realize this is literally the worst possible decision he could've made.

That's basically where I'm at. Lemmy is very interesting, and I enjoy that it's not being held hostage by the whims of corporate dipshits who only care about profit, but I'll go wherever the interesting content is. I just hope that place isn't back to reddit or twitter.

Maybe, but I think that the branding of the "fediverse" + difficulty of use will make it unlikely to surpass reddit or any other alternatives. It will almost certainly still be around for years to come, but I doubt it'll be much more than niche, despite me hoping for the contrary.

Tankies suck, but they're so far from nazis morally it's not even really fair to tankies to compare them.

At least tankies generally speaking aren't okay with genocide of innocents.

At least then we can just defederate with their instance, yeah?

Let's hope Reddit does something even more blatantly dumb than they've already done and start banning porn from their platform. Once that happens, that's when I think we'll really see alternatives take off.

Please read what I said again. I don't have an issue with the ecosystem, and I said as much in the original post. I have an issue with the branding of the ecosystem and am concerned that it's hampering growth because of its associations with venture capitalists/crypto scams/metaverse scams, etc.