I agree that people should stop using twitter and if nobody used it, it would stop being relevant. But it still is relevant at this point. We’ve put a big piece of our “interaction infrastructure” in the hands of a small number of maniacs. If those maniacs misbehave, they need to be punished.
Just nationalize twitter and be done with it.
Oil companies are not the problem, people who still drive their car to work are!
Are you sure about that?
Sorry to be that guy: Install Linux?
But seriously: l’d like to know as well.
Yep. Those companies make it easy to join so they capture big user bases and become the defacto standard. I had a bad feeling about discord from the beginning. Glad I managed to stay away. But I’m old and not really interested in most “communities” online, so it’s an easy decision for me. With instant messengers on the other hand…
Discord is such an obvious “stay the fuck away from” product.
I was about to post the same. Joining the biggest instance is a bad Idea. I remember when joining Mastodon, there was a quiz that helped me find a fitting instance. Maybe there is a way to have something similar for lemmy instances? Maybe it already exists and I don’t know about it? The concept of a decentralized social network seems to be hard to grasp for people.
They are just angry that they did not think of selling 5-Star reviews to those restaurants themselves.