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The open source world and its volunteers need to migrate to decentralized services as quickly as possible.
Everything is now easier than before for the Big Data, it is very possible in the age of AI to match our habits even according to anonymous data.
The solution is to switch to decentralized / self-hosted systems as quickly as possible.
Linux sub’s admins may archive here and announce an official Lemmy sub. Hope all other open source subs will migrate too.
I’m ready to leave RedDEAD!
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1uit5tb/time_to_migrate_lemmy_yeah_its_silent_now_but/
Surprised there’s still real people posting on there.
I’m surprised it hasn’t been removed and the poster banned. They get really banhammer happy when anyone mentions Lemmy on reddit, for some reason.
Edit: ope, looks like it got autofiltered “awaiting moderator approval”
I strongly disagree with this notiong that seemingly if not every single person on earth is using something its dead. A lot of people use lemmy.
I wonder where people are going for fediverse to seem dead? Im seeing quite a few posts!
Personally I think its just what other platforms tell others to keep them off the fediverse. Or you get people with no actual proof of anything they are posting saying heinous things about the fediverse (its filled with furry porn! its dead! anyone can post! etc…etc…)
Regardless, even if reddit users never in mass make it over here…thats fine. We are ok doing our own thing.
I mean… there is a ton of furry porn.
I think people come here expecting it to be a 1:1 replacement for their Reddit habits and refuse to accept that their niche hobby sub doesn’t yet exist here.
Thankfully this post was in the Linux sub and that’s one of the well represented niches here for obvious reasons.
All my niche hobby subs are dead anyway
We just can’t keep the bots out though. Its poisoned the net.
Hard to get bots out when the makers of the system are strongly in favor of the bots that spread (mis)information they agree with.
I look forward to dozens of users joining us but being decentralized doesn’t protect us from being tracked.
Everything is now easier than before for the Big Data, it is very possible in the age of AI to match our habits even according to anonymous data.
This applies just as much to the fediverse as it does to corporate slop sites.
it is very possible in the age of AI to match our habits even according to anonymous data.
Tbf, it was possible years before AI to de-anonymize users from “anonymized” databases. AI just speeds the process up.
Yes, they can track anyone with their current resources, but their revenues are all tied to active users. If that drops significantly then they lose money they need to run the tracking programs. We gave them the popularity they needed to get to this point. We can take it away again if we want to.
We probably won’t, but we could.
