Lmao

You fit in better there. Heck I bet you would really dig Instagram.

You first.

Then don’t donate to those two listed above. They run ML.

I’m here exactly because ml doesn’t represent us. Hopefully those losers lose so much funding that they abandon the project and somebody else picks it up.

Even if nobody picked it up that would still be better than paying those .ml dictator-cocksuckers.

You really don’t want to do that, they’re pro-Russia and anti-trans. The main devs are typical tankie scum.

They could probably get more people if they didn’t promote Russia’s attacks on Ukraine and advocate against trans rights.

You shouldn’t pay those tankies imo

Yeah because the genocidal tankie scum begged for contributions after a lot of us started boycotting them and lemmy ml.

TBH I haven’t seen evidence that layoffs generate capital. It just fudges cost to revenue ratios to emulate quarterly gains in hopes of appeasing shareholders.

I wish

Everyone Except Fascists and/or Tankies

If they’re tired of getting hit on or oppressed all the time then the communities for women on Lemmy might not be an upgrade. /joke

Lemmy being splintered and opposed to all forms of authority makes it perfect for radicalizing individuals to commit great harm and violence in their community.

All movement starts at the grassroots.

Nah fuck tankies, zero tolerance for the intolerant.

Your precise wording was “centralized networks” which I interpreted as the ISP providing traffic between you and other services. Perhaps you meant monopoly?

Couldn’t this be much different if “web 2.0” hadn’t taken over?

Probably not, even if you have time to maintain your site by updating it occasionally then it still falls upon individuals to fund the hosting services and hold the domain name. Even Hexbear’s domain wound up for auction a little while back because they forgot to pay their bills.

Many of them are still alive but don’t get the exposure they deserve because of centralized networks.

Since Net Neutrality has been off and on enforced, it’s generally been considered illegal to block, hide, or throttle traffic, but I agree those small sites didn’t get as much search indexing unless they paid for ads.

Forums lifespans weren’t all that much anyways. Most sites that were hosted before 2010 are gone now.

The real downside to everything being on StackOverflow, Reddit, Discord, etc is that it has made it easier for big tech to run their shady data collection and analysis schemes including AI Training.

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