i am a new user on the fediverse but what is the thing that in Big Social
but the fediverse is not prepared to replace
Tech enthusiasts are usually the early adopters. They’re okay with a bit of fiddling to get stuff working.
Normies are not. That’s where you’ll see some conflict.
“Success” by which I mean a massive influx of millions of users: IMO it’s kind of in a sweet spot because it’s not as easy to use as most social media, so a lot of the dumber people just don’t come here because they can’t figure it out (for example, they think there’s nothing here because they don’t understand the filter/how instances work).
If things are made too easy, they’ll start showing up in droves and they’ll bring tons of reddit’s bullshit over here. More bots, spammers, scammers, malicious hackers, and trolls pretty much everywhere and the mod tools on Lemmy aren’t terribly advanced, which is one of the main forum platforms in the Fediverse.
I feel this is a good thing, kinda like linux, I got into it and I love it, at the beginning I wanted for linux to grow and grow in popularity to become huge and widely used, but then i realized this would also mean being on the sights of the big corporations controlling the market right now and goverments, and it may start to get regulated more or some bullshit they will cook up to hurt it and the people who use it to gain back the market share lost. I do want both linux and lemmy to grow more, but up to a point so they stay safe.
While i don’t disagree, large corporations have been large Linux contributors for quite a while now. FOSS means some oversight, but i worry some “control” could slip in there in ways people don’t notice.
Yeah unfortunately this happens with a lot of fun, cool projects as they gain in popularity. Linux is getting more “user friendly” to appeal to the lowest common denominator, for example.
That one I’m a lot less concerned about because there will always be more complex distros aimed at enthusiasts. Nothing wrong with using Mint, but there are lots of choices out there for everybody. Having something like Ubuntu exist doesn’t mean that stuff like Arch or Gentoo can’t be used anymore. Plus, it helps mitigate Microsoft’s monopoly on operating systems.
I’ll second this, after distro hopping a bit at the beginning I ended up choosing Mint, it works and with i3 its like 500mb of idle ram, so far I haven’t found any reason to switch to a less user friendly distro, I don’t know what the advantages would be in using a more complicated/prone to breaking distro instead of mint. I’m open to switching though if I find something I like more, but Mint is amazing as a gateway drug distro, made coming over to linux SO much better, now I’m slowly infecting my family computers with mint aswell, gotta spread the virus
I’ve been using various distros off and on since the late 90s: Linux has come a very long way and Mint is a great example of it if you ask me.
“The Fediverse, Assemble”
Normies. I want decentralized social media to grow but to do that it needs people who aren’t self-selecting.
Success.
With success come the bots, trolls, and buyouts. All the big platforms started as places people liked to be. The enshittification always came after the success.
Spammers and other nefarious actors.
There’s a lot of trust built into federation.
To be fair, I encounter way more spammers and bots on corporate social media.
It’s hard to sell to communists, anarchists, and tech hoarders
Reddit used to be the most toxic site to advertisers on the web.
I had a friend who took out ads that were akin to “just testing” with even selling spots to company and he got hate mail.
Later I worked for a company and a manager asked about astroturfing on Reddit many many years ago. We convinced them not to with numerous examples of companies getting eviscerated for it.
Nowadays Reddit is a cesspit. It’s just reaction memes on engagement bait (Petahh what is this obvious porn screencap?!?!) and threads with 12 joke comments. The news I e already read a week ago from a primary source, and it’s been watered down into complete misinformation. Then there’s the obvious hate propaganda political subs.
from what i heard the Twitter platform had issues with moderation
ai bots
Spam and bots.
Sharing audio clips. You can post photos and videos anywhere, there’s always a button for those. Audio? Go make a separate account somewhere else.
LOL I can’t tell you how many times I wanted to share an audio somewhere but reddit/random forum/whatever site wouldn’t let me. I’d have to make a video with that as the audio track. I don’t get it. Audio invariably takes up LESS space than a video with the same audio. Not even uploading but just embedding, too.
Dealing with the avalanche of bot accounts.
Seen around the mod chat that instances with signup approvals are getting slammed with marketing people vometing llm bots everywhere.- there’s no way to know your admins aren’t compromised in some way
- there’s not much to defend against an influx of LLM user accounts
- eventually someone will post something or do something serious that gets the attention of law enforcement/intelligence agencies and they go after the entire federation instead of the problem users or servers
- identity verification laws
