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A major difference being that the fediverse won't get that "advertiser friendly" corporate sanitization with how it's set up.
It's nice not being advertised to or feeling like a product.
I think you underestimate the sheer fuckery of corporate advertisers.
I think the fundamental question is, as the Fediverse gets more popular, then how will servers get paid for? Here are some possibilities I see for how Fediverse hosting could work at scale:
I hope we come up with some process or plan for avoiding the pitfalls and forging an honest and community-integrating way forward.
Aka eternal September
Ah yes, the common addition that ruins pretty much every equation. People. People suck 😂
The only solution is to make your own private instance and never allow anyone to join. Perfection at last… Oh, wait there’s still one human ruining the atmosphere. Not to worry, there’s a quick fix for that. You just need to ban yourself and then the instance will be completely perfect forever.
Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths.
I think the next good solution to delay the march of normalcy is stronger community bias / branding.
Especially when the public gets to be anonymous. Then they believe they can do and say whatever they want to, no matter how shitty