As a lowly end user that just wants an online space to park in, I’m putting my trust in a platform run by strangers who I don’t know that could have all sorts of agendas, whether I’m signing up on a decentralised or centralised platform.
I know that this opinion is always going to be controversial around here because people here are very excited about and into the whole concept behind the Fediverse. But as someone that just wants a place to shit post, laugh at funny things and connect with people, it’s 6 of one and half a dozen of the other. The experience for me is the same because I’m not trying to run a server or anything.
I could be on Bluesky happily posting and then they turn bad and start removing posts for political reasons. Or I could be signed up on Feddit.org happily posting and then they turn bad and start removing posts for political reasons. In both of those cases, my only option as an end user is to abandon ship and years worth of posts and comments and go somewhere else.
I don’t personally know any admins around here. And they can talk about their ideals just like Mark Zuckerberg can talk about his. And all I can do is blindly trust that they’re on the level and aren’t going to take their masks off at a later stage. So as an end user, it really makes no difference.
As a lowly end user that just wants an online space to park in, I’m putting my trust in a platform run by strangers who I don’t know that could have all sorts of agendas, whether I’m signing up on a decentralised or centralised platform.
I know that this opinion is always going to be controversial around here because people here are very excited about and into the whole concept behind the Fediverse. But as someone that just wants a place to shit post, laugh at funny things and connect with people, it’s 6 of one and half a dozen of the other. The experience for me is the same because I’m not trying to run a server or anything.
I could be on Bluesky happily posting and then they turn bad and start removing posts for political reasons. Or I could be signed up on Feddit.org happily posting and then they turn bad and start removing posts for political reasons. In both of those cases, my only option as an end user is to abandon ship and years worth of posts and comments and go somewhere else.
I don’t personally know any admins around here. And they can talk about their ideals just like Mark Zuckerberg can talk about his. And all I can do is blindly trust that they’re on the level and aren’t going to take their masks off at a later stage. So as an end user, it really makes no difference.