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I'm in exactly the same boat. I love Reddit and I love the community. I'm a mod of a couple great small subs. But the site management has broken my trust. And that means it's time for me to 'grow up' and start putting serious thought into which networks I'm supporting with my participation. Decentralized is the future. 'Big Tech' platforms are the kiddy pool of the internet, it's time for us as a society to swim into the deep end and take back control of our content and consumption. It's good to be among friends :)
It is about time we take back OUR internet, as it once was OURS. I could not agree me on that part right there. Good having you put some thought into it and good having you here, so welcome to lemmy and have a pleasant stay. The future is Decentralized. The future is Open Source. The future is Ours.
Yes exactly!
I remember the days when 'online community' meant someone with a cable modem and a laptop would set up a 'server' with an IRC bot or a Shoutcast stream and people would gather on forums and the like. It wasn't as slick as the Facebooks and Reddits and Twitters and all that, and it took a >90 IQ to figure out how to make it work, but it was ours. There was no billionaire owner in California deciding what you could and couldn't do or say or post according to what his advertisers would tolerate, and no giant machine learning algorithm vacuuming up your every keystroke to show you more relevant ads.
Those were good days.