Disclaimer: I wrote this article and made this website.

There was some talk of this issue in the recent fediverse inefficiencies thread. I’m hopeful that in the future we’ll have a decentralized solution for file hosting but for now I deeply believe that users should pay for their own file hosting.

  • smeg
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    16 days ago

    Either they federate and all their users are exposed to the rest of the fediverse, or they don’t and they may as well be a separate thing

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      16 days ago

      Yeah. What I’m saying is, they federate, but people have no idea what “federate” means. So they’d come here, and see “@smeg@feddit.uk” and not understand what feddit.uk was.

      They would see you, and think you are a user of the verizon owned service. Not question it one bit, and just move on thinking it’s all verizon.

      The same way people in Atlanta will say “I want a coke” “What kind of coke?” “Root Beer”.

      Or the same way parents in the 90s would say “I bought you a Nintendo Game!” then you open it, and it’s a Sega Saturn disc, when you have Sony Playstation. It’s all just a Nintendo to them.

      I’m saying if Verizon grew Lemmy to 200 million users, and all except 60k were on the Verizon instance, then despite being incorrect, Lemmy becomes “The Verizon owned Facebook”.

      Doesn’t matter that it’s federated.

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        16 days ago

        I guess that’s what instances are trying to avoid by preemptively blocking Threads. If everyone else blocks it then Lemmy carries on existing as it is. And I can’t imagine big corpo wouldn’t want to create their own name.