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Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy (www.404media.co)
submitted 1 year ago by FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dunno man. Discord has thousands of closed servers that are doing great.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We're talking about the need for a system to deal with major access of a main facebook/insta/twitter etc... to a majority of people.

IE of the scale that someone can go "Hey I bet my aunt that I haven't talked to in 15 years might be on here, let me check". Not a common occourance in a closed off discord community.

Also, noting that doesn't fully solve the primary problem.. of still being at the whims and controls of a single point of failure. of which if Discord Inc could at any point in time decide to spy on closed rooms, censor any content they dislike etc...

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I question if we really need spaces like that anymore. But I see where you are coming from.

I was definitely only thinking about social places like Lemmy and Discord. Not networking places like Facebook and LinkedIn.

It really feels like there are zero solutions available. I’m at a point where I realize that all social networks have major negative impacts on society. And I can’t imagine anything fixing it that isn’t going back to smaller, local, and private. Maybe we don’t need places where you can expect everyone to be there.