I know it’s a bit harder to do on a decentralized network, but it’s not impossible, plus we’re discovering all kinds of new flaws with the Fediverse at large since the population boom, hopefully things will get ironed out eventually and hopefully we keep things as they were intended, but there’s always some shit head out there that thinks one of two things, how can I break this? And how can I capitalize off of this? It took more than ten years for Reddit to get as bad as it is, where will Lemmy and the rest of the Fediverse be in ten years?
the problem that capitalism is slowly realizing is that it’s hard to make money off of the computer revolution, precisely because it saves labor. aside from the people doing hardware manufacture, it’s hard to turn an actual profit even after stretching. running a web forum or anything like it is especially hard, given how it’s hard to be a neutral and useful service while also being able to sell ads.
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I know it’s a bit harder to do on a decentralized network, but it’s not impossible, plus we’re discovering all kinds of new flaws with the Fediverse at large since the population boom, hopefully things will get ironed out eventually and hopefully we keep things as they were intended, but there’s always some shit head out there that thinks one of two things, how can I break this? And how can I capitalize off of this? It took more than ten years for Reddit to get as bad as it is, where will Lemmy and the rest of the Fediverse be in ten years?
the problem that capitalism is slowly realizing is that it’s hard to make money off of the computer revolution, precisely because it saves labor. aside from the people doing hardware manufacture, it’s hard to turn an actual profit even after stretching. running a web forum or anything like it is especially hard, given how it’s hard to be a neutral and useful service while also being able to sell ads.
Agreed - it takes constant vigilance to keep the corporate vultures at bay. Hopefully we will get more than just a decade out of it here.