Representative Democracies have failed (are failing) like all other political ruling systems have failed so far. Some failed just faster than others that failed more catastrophically while some fail silently (agonizing). In the end all systems failed.
Millions of bots programmed by meta employees?
Upvoted because I can't argue against this.
There's a key difference with email: that's opt-in communication. Generally speaking (outside of botspam which does get blacklisted) you have to sign up for a newsletter or ask someone to email you. It's opt-in, not opt-out. Lemmy/Kbin are by definition opt-out: a new user, browsing All, will see everything they haven't blocked.
Good point!
If the first post they see on their New feed is a screed calling for the death of all LGBTQ+ people (for example), do you think a brand new user will calmly block the instance and move on, or decide that this instance isn't the one for them? And a user that agrees with that hateful message, they have now gotten the message that this instance is friendly to their worldview.
And here I disagree with you. The world is a horrible, dangerous, wonderful, exciting , murderous, funny, sad, depressing, manic place. Hiding that some people hate gays will not change the fact that some people hate gays. It will also not make these people disappear. Isn't it better to know reality and accept it as it is, deal with it as it comes?
Thunder is currently my go-to for reading/scrolling Lemmy.
How about embrace and enshittyfy like Google Talk did with XMPP?
Very welcoming. Have you considered that OP could be right and you wrong or are you so up your own ass that this is out of question?
I ditched Reddit a few weeks ago for other reasons (I am going full FOSS/decentralised services). My Reddit account was 11 years old, I don't miss it at all.
Nein. Reddit ist alleine durch sein Businessmodel dem Tode geweiht. Dezentrale Dienste und Protokolle sind das Einzige was im Internet dauerhaft bestehen kann (Email, Usenet, Fediverse, Matrix etc).
At least that's what I hope. There are a few things we need to roll back though: Messaging needs to be decentralised again (think what jabber/xmpp did, federation between Google, Yahoo, Facebook etc etc).
There's a reason email still lives as a protocol despite all it's flaws and shortcomings: Decentralisarion and interoperability. The Fediverse can give us, the users, the control (back) of what once was the free and open internet (usenet, gopher, ftp, http, smtp, etc).
Actually we're in a fork of reality where the plot from Tron kinda happened, only there's not one MCP... There's Meta, Google, Amazon, Reddit et al who disowned us users, served us non-open, centralised websites and services.
Google: Laughing in Android.