DRS Your GME

I have like three different instance accounts with the same handle - great for days when .world is on the blink. Really happy with the resiliency of the broader federated community.

There is definitely the opportunity here to build a stronger community going forward.

Superstonk is now over 2 years old and is aging like milk. It was a great community for a period of time, and served a necessary role where important information was discussed. But for a variety of reasons it is no longer serving that role the way it used to and so we must continue to adapt and move forward.

How many more years will this saga go on before the major event happens? And what about during the major event, what role can we expect Reddit and superstonk to take during that time? We can certainly expect a great deal of excitement and other emotions, it will be chaotic. Can we trust that Reddit will definitely guarantee our ability to have crucially important conversations during that period? And what about after the event and beyond? What role will the community of investors of GME play over the next 5 to 10 to 15 years?

Roughly 200 thousand individuals have directly registered their shares of GME, and this group of people will potentially wield a tremendous amount of influence in the not so distant future.

We simply cannot allow ourselves to get boxed in by a bunch of rules and restrictions and censorship that prevent us from talking about important timely information. We cannot allow anyone to treat this community as if it belongs to them just because they are the moderators of the largest subreddit where the community hangs out.

This Lemmy instance is the start of a foundation for future freedom, the creation of a new community in the fediverse where we will not be restricted by the censorship that is imposed on us on Reddit.

If the majority of us are all located in one single community, like superstonk, then all that needs to be done to control our conversations is to destroy or otherwise corrupt that single place, a single target.

In my ideal future, there are numerous Lemmy or other fediverse instances, e.g. 100, owned and operated by different individual GME shareholders, each instance providing an additional place that supports the important conversations that pertain to all of us. Each instance might have a specific topic of interest, maybe some are about generic business discussions, maybe some are focused on art, others on video games, etc., but each would be a place that offers space to discuss the interests of GME investors, whatever those interests become. Lemmy and the fediverse is very versatile.

Since in the fediverse, any user on any instance can communicate with other users on other instances, this would create an extremely resilient community environment. In this ideal future, because there would be so many different instances that all fundamentally share a common interest, no single instance would have the ability to corrupt or control the discussions that the larger community has. For example, if one particular instance started to censor certain topics of conversation for some reason, it wouldn't matter at all because there would still be 99 others that don't, and anyone could continue the conversation among those other instances. The very nature of this environment would in my opinion therefore disincentivize acts of corrupt self-interest because such acts would be ineffective wasted efforts. There would be no real ability to extensively censor topics of information in the way that we have witnessed happen on superstonk.

This is the strengthening of the community that I am aiming for, that I believe the fediverse offers to us.