Ever see the excellent poster for the Nic Cage movie Lord of War?
Ever see the excellent poster for the Nic Cage movie Lord of War?
Now say it again but replace crytpocurrecy with Website aggregation. Its honestly not that different from leaving the big centralized reddit for the Fediverse… only to mostly end up in a few relatively huge alternatives in the name of decentralizing. Its just… human nature.
The beauty is it doesn’t matter too much. I’m seeing and replying to this from a kbin instance of this post, you see.
Whever anyone asks what the internet used to be like I send them to a little old site called www.homestarrunner.com It’s still up after all these years. Truly beautiful.
Some reddit mods have turned their unpaid volunteer janitor gig on Reddit into a business without redditors realizing. For ex. Onlyfans was started by mods in NSFW subreddits who used reddit up votes to decide which models to recruit models who in turn would bring horny traffic over.
At first I thought you could only have one federated account because beehaw registrstion page wouldnt process but I think they’ve just been flooded with requests.
Yeah he apparently started making a statement to the press and only got about 5 words in before freezing and going blank, a classic show of senility.