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Cake day: January 11th, 2025

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  • If we ban centralization then IRC, Signal, Xenforo, vBulletin

    Signal is not social media, IRC is an open protocol, isn’t it? I do not know about the rest.

    Even when you have federation, each unit in that “web” will usually have a centralized moderation team and administration.

    I do not have a problem with that. The problem with centralized social media is that users are locked in to using some specific app because all their friends are there, which makes it harder to switch. This gives monopolies like Facebook an unfair advantage.

    Can you suggest a comparable alternative?

    I dunno, how Lemmy does this?

    Do you mean that they at most should be non-profit? And if so, why?

    Yes I mean that. For-profit social media profits from increasing user engagement, even if that means through getting people addicted, intentionally not dealing with misinformation (because misinformation is usually more outrageous and gets people more engaged), data collection and other unethical practices, all because shareholders need the line to go up.









  • They are not called tankies because of rolling tanks though

    The term “tankie” was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Specifically, it was used to distinguish party members who spoke out in defence of the Soviet use of tanks to suppress the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.[6][7]

    From Wikipedia