Is this some kind of bot posting this ancient news? Can't wait until it posts the breaking news of which side won WW2.
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VC meddling is a good way to put what's happened. This kind of thing feels like a cycle we keep seeing. New service pops up that people like, audience/community grows, financial shit heads move in and try to take control.
Hopefully as this service grows, we'll be able to protect it.
I had already stopped buying their products a few years ago because of similar moves. I didn't write that I would stop buying ar future, not yet launched product based on this specific article.
This kind of thing is why I stopped buying their shit.
Yeah, that's what we know it's really about too anyway. Despite all of these companies PR claims of being environmentally friendly.
It was a similar deal with non-removable phone batteries, glad the EU is clamping down there.
I guess I've been lucky enough not to be firehosed with it immediately. Guess I'll come across it more as I subscribe to more communities.
Yeah, I don't want to see humanity keep on going like this. The profit incentive in some ways can increase the speed at which something develops, but it feels like we're outgrowing it now that we have so many good communication/collaboration tools.
The profit squeeze on everything feels like it does more harm than good.
That's an awesome Rube Goldberg machine of a pisser.
Hopefully whoever built that will make a version for the Chinese sperm extractor machine next.
Perhaps the various concensus theories and mechanisms that came out of crypto could somehow give inspiration on ideas to protect this service from the shitty financial actors that come in and ruin all of the good services.
I'm not saying actually using crypto, just maybe some of their concensus mechanisms/ideas for preventing bad actors could be put in place.
"Negativity on my feed is nonexistent."
Absolute first thing I noticed when I came in to test this as a Reddit alternative. It's so refreshing, and the discourse is so civil.
If there's a way we can keep this quality, it'd be amazing. I often wondered when I'm on Reddit or twitter how much of the awful negativity is really people's or bots/algos prodding them into acting this way.
If the current big players best bets are to weasel in on the large instances, are there any simple changes that could be done to prevent their take over or influence? Things that aren't too heavy handed?
Spez, or some other party involved in the financialization of Reddit and has an incentive to tilt opinion maybe. It's all the kind of things that seem to happen.
I have seen the kind of thing you're talking about plenty of times of Reddit and twitter in the past. Where users are shitting on a company, then all of these weird apologetic comments start coming out of nowhere, that nowhere near that many normal people would be spouting in defense of a shit move by a shit company.
The lack of negativity and divisiveness right away was noticable on here. The responses all looked much more respectful too.
Any good android apps for peertube? I see a few search results, not sure which is good