It’s going good so far 🤞🤞

Yeah, but in federated social media you can just pack up and set up a new instance.

You won't ever need to leave the whole thing behind to disconnect from corporate BS.

My concerns the product advertisers attempting to sneak in, bragging or something. It felt rampant on Reddit, so it’s probably left me wary. 😣
- And if that happens, you can bet your ass there will one day be instance-wide ad-block that auto-blocks users/instances known for posting ads.
  
  If that becomes a thing, there will be instances that explicitly filter it out.
- Double edge sword. "This guy is shilling" reports go rampant .
  
  Hopefully, the Reddit bot trackers peeps will move to lemmy, and lend us their wisdom.
  I learnt so many ways realise a poster or commenter was a bit from those peeps. Amazing MVPs!
  And folks like kitboga taught me that spammers/scammers generally stick to a script.
  
  It's gonna be an arms race! Hopefully we win!
- Yo I also worry about advertisers attempting to target me with localised advertisements, which is why I use Borg VPN! Nice try, advertisers, but those "hot milfs" are nowhere near me, ha!
  
  /parody
That's why I started my own instance, I got the freedom to pick and choose what instances I allow, so if any corporation decides to join the fediverse I don't have to wait for the admin to defedederate.

Just make sure if you're using it as a personal instance to make it so no one but the admin can make communities and restrict your sign ups so your instance can't get taken over by nutjobs.
- Interesting! Is there a risk of ballooning costs from legitimate bandwidth costs? Do you set some arbitrary limits on how much traffic you'll support before you turn off the tap?
Yeah I could see myself eventually joining a splinter of the fediverse that is even more rabidly anti-corporate than we are right now. Like constantly blocking shills and instances that refuse to do their own aggressive pruning.

I wouldn't mind some of the "normies" joining. I'm a programmer too, and while the programmer/Linux jokes get a little bit of a chuckle out of me I wouldn't mind some other stuff.

Corporations are coming, it's inevitable, but at least this time we won't have to deplatform ourselves to have a sensible discussion.

Someone will try and justify corporate investments. And once they get in, they will infest. They ALWAYS play the long game.
- I agree that they will deliberately try to infiltrate, but corporations are notorious for never playing the long game.
- That is why lemmy is decentralized, no one can buy every single instance. and even when a corporation buys the codebase of lemmy, another person can come in and create their own platform that is still compatible
Are there any corporations on Mastodon? The most popular part of the Fediverse.
- Yeah there is, governments too. It's not super widespread but they do have a presence.
  
  Due to how federation and anti-viral Mastodon is though, they can't hijack trends and stuff so a lot will most likely never come.

I felt kinda bad for the people who were here when I joined two months ago. They had their own little community which would get quickly overrun by ex redditors. I wasn't sure if I was a refugee or a colonizer.

If those people want their own isolated communities, those exist elsewhere. You join the fediverse because you expect it to grow and network.
- I feel like it's like discovering a hidden place at a lake that's really beautiful. You can't really claim it as exclusively your's but would still very much prefer it if no one else went there, as selfish as that might be
Being a colonizer or a migrant is up to you 😉
Manifest Netsiny?

It’s certainly starting to show that some people with views who wasn’t here before are starting to arrive. Like people openly trolling, making racist and confrontational comments. Feels pretty bad, it was such a nice haven here.

Control measures are inevitable, like account length requirements, etc. I don't see any way around that to have a usable usergenerated site. A lot of the previous reddit alternatives were full of racism because of who reddit pissed off on the site, but people like that need an audience and they don't generate good content. The nerds who do always have to deal with trolls.
- I hope it will be manageable. Heavy moderation is very time- and energy consuming and the people behind the instances today are already under big pressure to keep things in order.
But the real question is...

Which came first, the internet or the troll?
- They grew together. Look up the origins of "spam" in university Nets.

Can we stop the gatekeeping and that normie bs, plz ffs

The gatekeeping is especially ironic (or maybe just hypocritical) because they didn't use this meme template properly, lol. You know, like a "normie".
No

Great. Now I'm worried I'm a normie and not the "Manifest Destiny" nerd I have been trying to be.

/s

Seriously though, from the comments, it's seems like the corporate rats gaining ground in places that are federated is going to be a lot harder, and more user resilient.

I read a comment earlier somewhere that at least they hadn’t seen anyone use /s yet.

....yet.
- As soon as a space is big and diverse enough that you stop recognising usernames or even instances, you've got to signal intent. It's unavoidable. Only alternative is to give shelter to shitheads, who say the same things, but mean them.

controversial opinion; I think lots of companies should host lemmy instances for their own support forums.

I think that news organisations should create their own distribution instances. The BBC has started to set up their own Mastodon server. I would definitely prefer to be able to create my own news feed, direct from source, and selected for greater criteria than how many rage clicks a headline is likely to garner.
Not controversial at all.

There are considerations.
Corporate instances affecting public opinion.
Corporate opinion silencing/moderating public opinion.
All that, and user moderation as well.

A company may not like legitimate dissenters, but it might be in the public interest...
Unmoderated, it might turn into a cesspool.
So, who moderates it? AI/AutoMod? And how? What algo? Does that retroactively apply on updates?

This happens on actual company forums. Yes.
So, we need 2 lemmy communities per company? Their one, and a public one? What if the public one is being unfair? Who knows about that?

It's tough!
Oh no, do you even lemmy, bro? That's reddit talk /s

Different version:

Only nerds with the worst opinions migrate

Yes i wouldnt like to be linked to someone that whants costanza to step on them.
- You clearly have no taste.

One time we thought that Google was a cool startup head on against corporate giant Microsoft 😔

This is called enshittification, and happens to all platforms.

I dont think you know how this meme works

I hate the word normie (ususally used by incels and the like)

It's a nickname. His actual name is Normald
ok normie
ok normie
I guess it's easy to think that way if you're new to online communities.
- A wild condescending reply appeared.

Don't kid yourself. Its us that fuck it all up. We love getting fleeced by the simplest of content creators. We will walk in every single thing we hate about other sites into this site just because someone entertains us.

Soon as they got our attention, they'll monetize our it and everything will go to shit.

Its forbidden to talk shit about content creators, they make content and content is king.

On the internet, Creative people are the guys in suits. They'll do whatever they can to turn your every waking minute into a 24/7 commercial

Anything that gains too much steam and mainstream attention is ripe for corporate takeover/infiltration. Federation should hopefully keep them at bay for a while.

I really hope so, the PR vermin always finds a way to ruin something good. 😣

But because it's federated, we can secede at anytime. It's a fool proof system like the united states.

Or, hear me out, we overthrow capitalism and this doesn’t happen.

I’ve been waiting for it, because I’m not getting any younger lol.
- Climate change, the equalizer. Can’t have markets without resources. Laughing and crying at the same time.

Is there a FOSS license that can prohibit code being used for profit over a certain amount?

No, but there are copyleft licenses that require anyone using a fork of some open-source project for for-profit purposes to subsequently open-source any changes they make.
- Lemmy is AGPL v3.0. From what I understand, that means anyone running Lemmy (or a fork of Lemmy) needs to make their source code public, even if their code changes are strictly to support their own network infrastructure.
  
  it really doesn't matter though, as a corporation only needs to implement an interface to Lemmy via ActivityPub protocols; in other words it they could write a completely closed-source backend to use for profit and as long as it can poop out the correct data structures over ActivityPub to allow Lemmy instances to understand it, it will work.
  
  This already happens as we can see and subscribe to kbin magazines, and Mastodon users can be @'d and IIRC can reply to comments via Hoot (or whatever they call it). Kinda wild, but it also leaves the door open to literally whoever.
  
  I think the real interesting question is will a large corporate player be able to maintain a captive userbase? None of the doomsday scenarios play out in their favor unless they can capture users and communities - because then the usefulness of the whole thing rides on their server being available. At that point it's reddit with more steps - they can do what they want.
No, that's against the ideology of freedom. What you can do is dual license with a FOSS and a commercial license.
- So what happens to both projects that buy into foss to commercial? Are they 2 single licenses then?

What's a normie? I don't think I have seen one yet. /j

How would that even happen?