genuinely politics is a good indicator of normification. that and celebrity pop culture discussion. the general discussion ends up just being complaining and only complaining
@phnt@theorytoe@silverpill@caohuak my theory with migration is that "the normies" will only come if it's polished, normie friendly, marketed, and used enough. Normies have a huge mentally-imposed barrier to anything new/different where the second anything goes wrong they give it up and want their Windows back.
Apple is the only company who could bypass this, take a guess on why.
The "culture" kind of rotted with the great Keffals/LFJ op to shutdown Kiwi Farms and the userbase there used it as a bunker for a while, along with poasties, Jim being banned on Twitter for a while, and then the Mastodon side trying to take over before being given their own reservation to be on (Bluesky). I unfortunately wasn't there for much of the old stuff, I literally tried to use SPC when it was a GS instance and it felt like me and a few friends were trying to force ourselves to use it.
until gatekeeping is valued culturally this will continue to be a problem. though a network that anyone can federate with will eventually be homogenized and/or taken over by the majority take
like you have entire fucking fed organizations that are basically funded to import twitter censorship onto the fedi like https://about.iftas.org/
and fucking evan is too busy stroking his cock to the fact that 'hes the creator of fedi' or some shit while contributing essentially nothing valuable to the network beyond actively promoting the censorship of it
I mean on fedi, the moment you get on a defed list, its basically being deplatformed because of how lists get spread. Most new servers on the network import a bunch of blocklists from the getgo. Hell some stacks have integrated blocklists. There are clients with integrated blocklists (usually denying logins for certain domains). Fedblock has even spilled over into sysadmin abuse blocklists.
@prettygood on the other hand no IP forces a particular project to actually compete more than not. Although I do think there is some benefit to IP law (you dont have a more capable entity outperforming and stealing your market you because they have more resources) the current system is not very good and is more to 'prevent competition' rather than 'prevent competition in the early development of an idea'
@prettygood yeah I have a quite mixed opinion on IP however my position on the current system is that it encourages monopolization in a very negative way. In current year it stifles competition more since most IP owners seem to just sit on an idea and never improve on it
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