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It seems a lot more "de-centralized" than the rest of the 'verse, including lemmy & Mastodon, which i more poly-centric.

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[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, for starters I have no idea what it is. Maybe you could explain?

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

because it's packed with nazis and cryptobros with their spam. moderation is very limited by design

[–] besselj@lemmy.ca 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Because projects funded by Jack Dorsey have a track record of going to shit

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't like the twitter format.

I'm interested in following subjects, not individual people.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You may already know this, but I'll say it anyway: It's possible to follow hashtags on Mastodon, and so basically following topics.

It does rely on people putting relevant hashtags on their posts, but do you want to hear from someone who doesn't do that?

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 6 points 11 months ago

It does rely on people putting relevant hashtags on their posts, but do you want to hear from someone who doesn't do that?

Why wouldn't I?

Hashtags are not even close to a reliable way to follow a subject. The fact that people can post without them, means a lot of people don't. Not because they don't have something interesting to say, but because they are posting it for their followers. The entire culture around how discussion should be conducted is different among users used to the twitter format.

To post on lemmy, your post must be associated with a relevant community. Hence, posts go out to subscribers interested in the subject, rather than to the followers of the user. As such, posts live or die on the merit of their content. Not who posted it.

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It is a nazi platform isn't it?

[–] pipi1234@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Is far right and meat eating leaning for sure.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I looked at it, but it seems to be for micro-blogging (like Mastodon), not communities (like Lemmy).

[–] Crampi@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

In 2024, in an article reporting on the project's funding, Business Insider claimed to have identified fiatjaf, and had found two websites previously published by this person to disseminate the work of Olavo de Carvalho, a far-right conspiracy theorist

Oh oh

[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 2 points 11 months ago
[–] platypode@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago
  1. Never heard of it
  2. Hashtags are stupid