pannacotta__

You’re a moron. Piracy is not stealing because nothing is ever taken from the copyright holder, unless you’re going to argue that a theoretical purchase is being stolen. By which logic, deciding not to buy something is stealing.

A guy on twitter who’s kinda funny.

My main problem is that there just isn’t anything I actually want to engage with on Mastodon. Most of the communities I would engage with simply don’t exist there, or only exist there in minute quantities.

Absolutely wild that this works lmao, ActivityPub is crazy

Maybe, but I think that the branding of the “fediverse” + difficulty of use will make it unlikely to surpass reddit or any other alternatives. It will almost certainly still be around for years to come, but I doubt it’ll be much more than niche, despite me hoping for the contrary.

Tankies suck, but they’re so far from nazis morally it’s not even really fair to tankies to compare them.

At least tankies generally speaking aren’t okay with genocide of innocents.

At least then we can just defederate with their instance, yeah?

That’s fair. Maybe I’m just chronically online, but it really skeeves me out how eerily similar some of the terms here are to crypto scams. Not saying this is one, obviously- as far as I can tell, there really isn’t any monetary incentive to run an instance-, but the language used at the moment can get uncomfortably close, which definitely might push people away.

While this is good, I can’t help but feel that the branding of the decentralised social media ecosystem is hurting the growth a little bit. The -verse suffix, imo, is just too tainted from all the cryptobro metaverse scams and really makes this seem like some crypto scam as opposed to an alternative to the current crumbling social media platforms.

Regardless, I hope this ecosystem does take off, as it does seem useful and interesting.