Enshittification and the Internet's future

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[creaturefeature]

Twitter stuff caused me to use Mastodon more now and Reddit stuff caused me to get on Lemmy.

Anyways.

Apparently Threads won't be available in the EU due to it not complying with EU privacy laws. If the big masses move to Threads, if all the fanartists will be posting on Threads... then I'd be pretty mad about being left out. In that situation, I wouldn't mind being able to see the stuff through Mastodon. Assuming Meta can't steal my private info through there.

I think EU banning threads might a blessing in disguise. Luckily for me I managed to joined  fandom mastodon instances that attracts the type of fanartist i´m more interested in seeing, thanks to them having a strong stance against people harassing others based on ships/fanart, lean towards free artistic expression and being queer friendly. plus I could always follow other artists from different instances.

Which is probably more than you could say about places like Instagram. Which their moderation is kinda...yikes.

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Looking at the iOS store page of the Meta Threads app clearly shows the issue and why it is not (and will never be in the current state) EU compliant

I'm not surprised that Facebook is going to harvest all that data, but I wonder how much of that Facebook is going to try on other parts of the Fediverse it can access. Man I wish California can get privacy laws like the EU.

The web revival needs a lot more hobby-specific communities and a lot less catch-all communities.

I've been thinking the same also. I like Melonland but I'd love to find a forum that focuses on a specific topic or two. I've been looking around for a forum that focuses on discussion technology and current Internet events, but so far I can't find anything that fits that. I hope that as the Internet Underground grows more forums popup.

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Funnily enough, in a different tab I am currently reading this discussion that also brings up these issues. The discoverablity on the fediverse is bad and interaction is made very hard; someone aptly said "Honestly, requiring legwork to make the site interesting is something that will keep it from ever taking off." which echoes the points here about having to compete against addictive, easy to use sites pretty well too.

i hadn't heard of this tildes thing before but it seems like a place i'd like to spend time in  ! do u have an invite link for it? (sorry off topic :P)

[shevek]

do u have an invite link

No I just lurk, to be honest! last I heard, invites were offered on migration subreddits, maybe you'll find some there.