I guess we’re at the normie stage since OP apparently doesn’t know how this meme works.
It’s “minions man presents my opinions” isn’t it?
They can’t fuck off the fediverse, only their own instances. That is the advantage of decentralized networks.
That’s the good thing. If big tech fucks up again, we can simply move to another instance.
We just need to post stuff so ridiculous that advertisers either don’t want to be here or take part in the shitshow (would be kinda funny to see a ad for a Cereal that looks like a MLG shit post)
Maybe this was 4chans strategy the whole time after all
lol
They were doing that shit all over reddit. It was rampant with blatant product placement.
That weren’t actually funny memes. It was kinda obviously advertising and its illegal to not mark advertising in many countries so… That won’t happen again.
That’s Tumblr’s strategy :P It seems to be working okay.
But we can just de-federate if it turns to shit and lock them out.
I would like a future where smaller companies set up instances and compete with each other rather than one big evil business in control, and “normies” should be invited here, Don’t like the mentality of everything new being the special little club for the early adopters.
I would like a future where smaller companies set up instances and compete with each other rather than one big evil business in control
That goes strongly against the mechanics of how capitalism works. Markets tend toward monopolies over time.
not always tbh.
If certain confounding factors prevent it, sure. Can you name a confounding factor in this case?
I can see a world where when the Fediverse/Lemmy grows more, a big corporation buys out the top 10 (or whatever) Lemmy instances, combines them and defederates from all other instances. Add a new frontend, a shitty app, and run ads and et voilà.
The majority of users (“normies”) won’t switch instances and so the cycle repeats.
