Yes, it does. It will keep suffering from the same issues as long as it encourages microblogging, and there are public upvotes and likes, and you can post links on Lemmy with a single-sentence summary that people can react to without reading the link. The Fediverse social media is built on the exact same premises as for-profit social media.

What has been done on the Fediverse is taking these systems and making them less addictive. Basically, they have all the problems of for-profit social media, but for-profit social media snowballs these problems and puts them at the core of their business model. The issue without the several layers of « making it worse because money » is not nearly as bad. But I do believe it’s a « lesser evil » thing, at least for our brains and ability to interact with people.

That’s an excellent point, thanks for sharing your insight!

Ahh gotcha! And yeah that was another post by me, from the same website, on the same community, so the confusion is understandable:)

That is a reference I do not get.

good luck! I believe in you!

not as far as I know from my younger sisters. to be fair, we didn’t learn much media literacy in my time either.

This makes me think of last year’s update by Matrix saying that they are used by multinational corporations all over the place, but they themselves aren’t even sure they can afford to work on their own product anymore, financially, because these Megacorps don’t give them a cent.

Same here. I also really like that they sync YouTube subscription and allow to follow Facebook pages, so I barely ever need to open these two websites.

Once again it’s that “worst person you know just made a great point” headline

“les mers” lol

Looks great!

Oh, it’s not video games and heavy metal anymore?

Amazing, thanks!

My fave is Anki, free on Android and 25 USD on i0S for the exact same product.

Obsidian for my journaling and note-taking needs, The Storygraph for tracking my reading.

Go on the All tab with the setting New to see all posts that can be read by your instance. This still allows you to subscribe to some stuff on the Subscribed tab without having any curation in the All tab.

This is such a fascinating story! Rae from the Zoned Out podcast made a series about it - I’m not on her Patreon so I could only listen to the intro episode (first out of three) but was so interested!

Given how much money Google Maps makes with its rate limitations, I can see why other companies want to launch their thing, unfortunately. OSM will remain the ethical option.