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  • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    914·
    2 days ago

    some weird wannabe social network with no large corporation behind it and no VC money in the bank cannot work, should not work, will not work.

    techbros can’t even imagine something working without capitalism, they truly have no imagination… no wonder they made genAI

    • oakward@feddit.orgEnglish
      7·
      23 hours ago

      I really hope you are right. I currently predict some issues with the scalability of the fediverse, maybe due to ignorance. If the majority of people switch their social media to the fediverse, the current volunteer hosted infrastructure will crash. Such infrastructure is not cheap to maintain and donations may dry out at some point. Specially for pixelfed, loops and peertube. The fediverse may run into trouble without easy self-hosting solutions

      • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        16·
        2 days ago

        tbh these people would probably say linux is too niche anyways

        but, like, imagine a project that’s entirely free, backed by donations, fully open-source, and so successful that it’s name has become a generic term for what it is. a project so successful that basically everyone who’s ever been online has used it and uses it frequently. a project so ubiquitous that almost everyone takes it for granted.

        too bad that doesn’t exist!