come on, setting up your own DNS is not difficult at all. For my home network, it’s running in a Raspberry Pi, but before that I ran it locally on my desktop. There’s no way I’d spend 15$ a year to resolve internal addresses.

Sure, you have to be careful with the TLD you choose, but I believe that if the ICANN were to create the .lan TLD, it would be all over the internet first.

I think needing a VPN to access the internal network is a good practice. And if you’re going to be used a VPN anyway, I don’t see why you wouldn’t use a “fake” TLD like .lan for internal stuff, after all it’s just simple DNS rules.

bluesky depends on one single entity. they promised a lot about their protocol, but they have yet to show that other instances other than the official one can operate in a fully independent manner.

I mean, I’m sure they sell Android phones in the UK. Why do you buy Apple products if you are aware of their monopolistic practices that have to be battled with legislation?

Interesting. I like the UI. I doubt the aesthetic people on Tumblr would like it but that’s not the point.

it’s always welcome to have more options in the fediverse.

How is federation working, BTW? I see you’ve commented from wafrn, are you able to follow Lemmy communities from there?

or you can just take a template, replace the placeholder text and images with your own and you’re done.

most websites don’t come up with their own design, even less scammers. it would be a waste of time

Meta could take over the fediverse pretty easily once they’ve been here for a while.

Nothing, they’re one cog in a pool of federated instances.

Yes, Threads will be technically just an instance of a federated network with thousands of instances. But Threads is so fucking big in comparison that most posts will come from there. And at that point, they can impose their algorithms and recommendations on us.

Firstly: commerzialization will come eventually anyways

And it’s going to make the fediverse way worse.

Secondly: what has all of that to do with democracy? I would hope that the Fediverse thrives to become a democratic place.

I’m not sure I understand your idea of democracy. Isn’t the fediverse “democratic” already? Everyone is free to federate and defederate with anyone.

Also, the Fediverse is currently still rather small. If it should benefit humanity as a whole, you will not be able to avoid corporations completely.

Corporations are not humans. They use us and see us as nothing more than numbers. They don’t give a shit about people or humanity as a whole.

I’ll make sure to block every corp I’m aware of. You’re still free to do otherwise, of course. Isn’t that democracy for you?

Wow, that’s great. Only the thing that our society is based on for last decades with a tradition of hundreds of years. Great, down the toilet with it! Hope you got some idea with what to replace it …

You have idealised liberalism. It only has brought crisis after crisis, provoked unnecessary wars, given birth to monstrous cynical corporations, etc.

I’m not saying democracy is broken, just liberalism and capitalism.

I don’t want to save the liberal democracy, thanks.

Actually, I’d say the fediverse nature is pretty much contrary to liberal values, at least in the state it exists right now with most instances being maintained by volunteers and donations, not corporations (let’s obviate Threads for the moment because there’s no full federation)

I’d say that Threads or the former Twitter allign far better with the values of liberalism, being for-profit private companies.

liberalism aligns with capitalism. most progressives are anticapitalist.

sure, liberals are normally progressives too, the counterpart of the moderates and the conservatives which are all capitalists, but they are usually perceived as not real progressives by the socialists, etc.

The main Lemmy developers very often don’t have the biggest clue of what they’re doing

this doesn’t sound constructive criticism to me.

that commenter has something personal against the devs. Lemmy is far from perfect but it’s functional and improving everyday.

for the most part federation works just fine. there are occasional issues, yes, but it’s not like it can’t federate at all.

yeah, no ads, no algorithms, no shitty monetisation attempts, no central authority limiting how people can access it, tons of different clients to choose from, etc.

People bring up XMPP but nobody wanted to use XMPP the majority of people were using Google Talk or Facebook Messenger.

Do you realise how hypocritical this is? Using the fediverse is effectively using XMPP in this analogy.

Just compare the 100 million users of Threads vs the 1.5 million MAU of the fediverse.

Threads is the corporate-backed proprietary service (Google talk) and the fediverse is the small network of federated servers hosted mainly by volunteers (XMPP).

By using the Fediverse you are already explicitly choosing not to use Facebook or X or Reddit.

By using XMPP you were explicitly not choosing Google Talk or Facebook Messenger. How is this any different?

The large social media companies already have larger user bases and more content and if people here wanted that they’d leave already.

XMPP users said the same about XMPP. And it was true, to a certain extent. The federated XMPP network is alive to this day, I’m in a few chat rooms and have a few contacts there.

not OP, but feedly is quite privacy invasive. the content you read is very valuable data, self hosting keeps your reading interests private.

It’s cool. I wish a function like this was built into Lemmy.

seeing that the post has more downvotes than upvotes, I’m not the only one who thinks this.

If the fediverse was at least mentioned in the video, I would partially understand. But it wasn’t. It’s just a random video posted by a fan of the creator and it has little to do with the fediverse.

nobody cares if a random influencer wannabe almost mentions the fediverse at the end of a random video.

XMPP was there before Matrix and will be there after Matrix dies when the venture capitalists behind Element funding decide to move the money somewhere else.

Matrix is not an “open source project”. It’s a VC funded company.