Fediverse

Yes but... while they are greedy MFers, part of the problem is that they did need to find a way to make the whole affair profitable, not only for that goal by itself but also so that it could be sustainable. A lot of the controversy is in how he tried to accomplish that goal, not that he needed to do so - bc any company needs to be sustainable.

Reddit is likewise far from the only tech product that has been enshittified by chasing after profits to the exclusion of all else, so there's that too. And I'm not even going to go down the rabbit hole of how much of this chases back to some changes in USA governmental policies at the time (Republicans were in charge of basically everything in ~2019).

Ultimately, Huffman has set himself up as the fall guy - the effigy to hold our attention and hate despite how he merely carried out the will of his masters, the venture capitalist bros behind him. So fuck spez, but also... not just him.

Though his ideas and execution of them were really fucking spectacularly BAD, so yeah, maybe him more than capitalism even. e.g. the Musk is really dumb, but then along comes Huffman who worships at the guy's feet, thereby making himself somehow even dumber!?!?

So yeah, all their changes were designed to get profits. They didn't work bc again they are REALLY dumb, and did not understand the slightest thing about ~~humanity~~ their userbase, but that didn't stop them from trying to fleece people of as much money as they could. i.e., their stupidity was only outpaced by their greed. 😞

i get the same "frozen" tech feeling from google products. like, there's issues that any dev that actually uses their own product would want to fix.

Okay, but don't say that I did nothin' for ya m'kay!?

Here it is just for you:

I wouldn't exactly call what I was complaining about my first week reposts, but I definately had system shock while I was still figuring out how things worked.

I'd see 3 different communities, all about the same topic, and I'd subscribe to them all.

Well, if you have 3 communities all focused on the same subject, when there's breaking news about that subject, they're all going to post that same news story.

So in my feed I'd see the same url posted from 3 different instances. It's not exactly a repost, but it feels the same.

I still don't know what the solution for that is. Feels less like a me problem, and more like a systems concept problem. Instead of having 3 communities with 3 users each, I feel like it'd be better to have 1 combined community with 20 users.

Now you may be saying "heeeey, wait a second! 3+3+3 doesn't equal 20!!!". In which case, congrats, you passed American public school high school. But I feel like one community with more users to start with would attract more users going forward. Kind of like a snowball effect that a single split community of 3 never got the snowball rolling on.

I like the idea of decentralized, I DON'T like the idea of fractured, and there is a difference. Right now, Lemmy feels like both.

So you take the good, you take the bad, you roll it up, and what'dya get? The facts of life.....the facts of life.....

It's really great to be able to browse via all - these days it's very easy to bubble up in some echo chamber. I've been here since the great API apocalypse and you all have made me research so many topics I'd never looked up on my own.