• imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 days ago

    The amount of comments thinking that Lemmy is totally not like a typical social media is absurd.

    Guys, we only don’t have major tracking of users here.That’s it! Everything else is the fucking same shit you’d see on facebook. The moment Lemmy gets couple tens of millions of users, we gonna become 2nd facebook.

    • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOP
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      10 days ago

      I haven’t used FB in half a decade, but at least with respect to reddit, there are definitely more good “features” in the threadiverse than just lack of tracking.

      Not saying there aren’t any issues or that scaling to 10 M MAUs won’t create new problems, but lack of tracking isn’t the only differentiating factor.

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        10 days ago

        Yeah decentralization and open source software and protocols being big ones. It means that if the “main” culture turns reactionary, that we’re not trapped in the same spaces as the shithead just because we share a platform.

        There could absolutely be two main fediverses, with no changes to the technology.

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      10 days ago

      It’s not a typical social media because it’s decentralized, but it’s not immune to all the problems of social media by any means. I’m not sure why you’re using Facebook as an example rather than reddit.