It’s funny when armchair experts insist that the fediverse won’t catch on because “federation is too hard to understand” when arguably the most widespread communication system on the internet follows the same model

  • electricprism@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    This really underscores that “The Company Town” is very much alive. Also move over East India Trading Co.

    We’ve let the Internet too few big players. It used to be more diverse, more federated. Now it’s just the New TV for Advertisers to shit down your neck.

    I’m not even sure if we can go back without inventing new technologies not captured by bureaucratic establishments.

    • lud@lemm.ee
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      3 days ago

      Spammers ruined this not email companies.