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I will not be spinning up instances of anything. I will seed hashes in bittorrent-like P2P networks, I will put my posts where they fit, I will look for posts from others in the most anti-censorship ways I can find, and I will hope devs and server admins create a version of Lemmy that’s fitting for more of my posts - while hurrying toward a possible future where Tor isn’t enough to make Lemmy relevant anymore, because P2P networks become the only place worth posting anything.

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Lemmy urgently needs federation between onion service instances and DNS addresses in order to actually do what most users seem to wish it would do: allow discussion outside what the corporate authorities allow, while outgrowing reddit & helping undo the damage social media has done to human communication.

    Shit thesis. The people that want this degree of speech are the people that would turn away any potential growth because they’re obnoxious pedophiles and drug addicts. Not that there’s anything wrong with drugs but the kinds of people who build their identity around them cause everyone who isn’t into drugs to want to get far away from them. You won’t be “outgrowing reddit” on this approach.

    These people are part of the early adopter crowd so it’s useful to make something that they will try and spread but you have to silo them away from everyone else while you do it or else they’ll actively destroy the future of your platform rather than help its growth. Reddit discovered this when it had its violentacrez moment.