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I say we celebrate the founding of startrek.website as Federation Day.
@z500 @beelzebeard so say we all!
I 100% agree. Federated social networks are about empowering diversity and actualizing democracy. Not just saying “oh we live in a democracy so we must be free” but actually building that freedom out into the structures of our communities. We are freer and more powerful together on a federated social network, and not only can this fan community continue to grow, its presence will definitely encourage other communities to join the fediverse too.
If other people see the fediverse or lemmy mentioned in passing and think “oh, the star trek reddit moved there didn’t it? yeah startrek.website” that does a service for the fediverse as whole by making it real to people.
I also think that if this community wanted to allow other topics on it, star trek is a great foundation to build a more general community around! Don’t know if that is what people want, just that I think a lot of people might come in the door for star trek and might find like minded people who like discussing other stuff too.
Yep I’m done with being the product and having ads shoved in my face. Reddit was the only ‘social media’ I ever used so I’m happy to eliminate one more attack vector from my life.
Corporations cannot be trusted, at best they are necessary evils.
You can either have a healthy social network that is a positive experience for its members or you can make a significant profit off of a social network.
I would say “pick one” but there is no choice there for corporations and ultimately this is the reason every single corporate social network is buckling under its own bullshit right now.
It isn’t possible to maintain a healthy community on a social network unless there are lots of human moderators who actually care about their communities, and it isn’t profitable to have a bunch of human moderators.
THIS IS the hard problem of running a social network, the software is just a detail… it’s the moderation and community maintenance that are the actually hard parts and large tech companies have zero interest in addressing that (besides, handwaving with “AI will magically solve it!”). Reddit is a weird case because instead of farming out content moderation to low paid, traumatized workers in countries where tech companies can get away with paying dumpster wages, moderation was largely taken up by a network of volunteers… and the only way that model remains sustainable is if the company profiting off of all that free labor doesn’t push too far in its drive to monetize… and that line has been irrevocably crossed with upsizing the company and pushing for an IPO.
There is just no way reddit doesn’t atrophy as a place to find interesting, niche expert conversations at this point. It is fundamentally unsustainable and impossible if you step back and examine the macro-scale conditions that are at play. The only variance possible here is how quickly reddit collapses into just low effort memes and bots and in what spectacularly foolish fashion it does so.
It is quite logical.
@beelzebeard I can’t believe this is NOT the first thing I thought 🤣
I agree and hope that we do hit a critical mass over here. It is already fairly lively, and hopefully a turning point of social media going forward (very slowly…)
