I think this decentralization and federation is what web3 is all about, without all the corporations calling everything to do with monkey pixel art that costs a million dollars "web3"

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[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 138 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's pretty dope. Been following the fediverse for a while, but I've never used twitter so mastodon felt kinda useless to me. I've never used facebook, so friendica felt kinda useless to me.

Anonymous strangers posting links and having discussions? Now that's more my jam.

[–] kommanditbolag@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've loved that part of reddit and still do to a point. The thing that's been creeping into the platform is the problem with bots and astroturfing.

[–] marksson@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My favourite part was AMAs by scientists and authors or even ppl like Gov Schwarzenegger. I hope fediverse develops to that point one day.

[–] darkwing_duck@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

I remember when AMAs were organic and people actually answered questions. Before prepared questions and answers became a thing.

[–] SubmarineDoor@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I loved seeing those IAMAs too. Schwarzenegger, Obama, NASA scientists and Woody Harrelson (can we talk about Rampart?)! Unfortunately I think the web is worse now, far too much focus on monetization, bots, propaganda> and astroturfing.

I'm hoping that Lemmy flies under the radar in the sweet spot of enough subscribers but not too many.

[–] haxasaur@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The only bot issue I heard of is following people, which one would only get notified if they use new reddit or official app. What were the other bot problems? What's to stop the bots on this site?

[–] mikehunt@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

My thoughts exactly

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Same here, neither of those are my thing, but lemmy scratches my needs. Of course without reddit fucking up, I would never have checked it out, but now I’m really hoping this gets big, without losing it’s core