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Despite the lack of an inbuilt spell-check to cover up my sausage fingers, this seems like a cool space to be in. Open source social media, wow. I came here from r/nz, and I gotta say, I've become pretty apathetic towards the corporate greed and data harvesting that has become the staple of most sites. It wasn't until I saw a bunch of buzz about this place on reddit that I even knew about it.

I guess I'd always assumed that the future of social media, and the internet in general, would be something closely resembling Orwell or P.K Dick's dystopias. Maybe this open source thing is a nice branch of the path, and even if it isn't, its nice to be here at, what seems to me, to be a pivotal point in history. Kia kaha everyone, hope you're all doing well.

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[–] z2k_ 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I’ve only been on Lemmy since the 3rd party api pricing news came out but what I’ve seen from the community coming together to optimise the website and database, and fund additional or bigger instances in preparation for 12 June puts a smile on my face.

The Fediverse is social media created and owned by the community and it’s amazing.

[–] agonizingnose 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How long ago did the news come out? I only heard today.

[–] z2k_ 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] agonizingnose 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, what a turn out for the post. Gonna feel sad when it all goes down. I mean reddit has been getting worse and worse, but damn I still remember browsing r/askreddit and r/woahdude at like 14 and just being amazed. Been a decade on that site, how time flies.

[–] Dave 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit won't come down. Many people may leave but reddit will still be around. This huge migration to Lemmy is massive in Lemmy terms but tiny as a proportion of reddit.

[–] agonizingnose 2 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, for sure. I mean down in terms of nails in the coffin. I'm sure they'll continue to put nail after nail into the sites desicated corpse for years to come, but the third party app I use is the only thing that hides the most obvious depths to which the corp has sunk to

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