There are peooke who never actually learn about tech, so everything must always be in the same place.

Personally, they can stay where they’re at if they’re at that level of world interaction.

Lemmy has roughly the same functions as anywhere else, just in different arrangement. If someone can’t see that, what are their other perceptions like?

And now they’re federating with Meta’s sewage operation, so I may not be l9ng with the fedi.

Tech bros are like a lice infestation.

Never did like bullfighters. Too much like stockbrokers.

Agree with the posts and comments. We’re up against the people who own those platforms, or their friends, so we need to be as independent as possible.

Lemmy has baggage from its founders, but that seems to be less of an issue as the general fediverse grows and no longer federates as much with them. Discussion only yesterday in a lemmy.world post about this very issue.

One thing about the whole story is that many facades are falling away. The stock markets, the banks, political manipulation, and the tech bro self-justifications.

The downside is that moving also leaves behind members who are less technical. I see this with people trapped in Gmail and hate it and “can’t” move.

So what could be useful here is a web app which would connect people who can only grok how to use an app. Those are mostly just specialized browsers, Mastodon has several already. It would add access to this place to their app drawer.

Have the app load and interact with this instance by default, it’s already got momentum. Then all the app users get added instantly once they download it and open it. If they want to post, the app helps them sign up. If they search for certain words in an app store, like drs, the app shows up.

We could probably just use one that’s already made. That way no maintenance, we can donate to the devs directly.

As long as there’s no motive to enshittify this instance, it won’t become Reddit.

I do think that changing downvoting would also help. Maybe have to downvote arrow go to Report so that shills can’t use it to hide info. They’ll have to write out why the post should be downvoted.

Also, we can all help by posting stuff we find. I’m not in the financial business, so I post stuff that seems relevant over in whynotdrs. One thing that seems to be true is that when I post something shills don’t like, it gets downvoted. It’s a sure way to find their sore spots.

So if you see an article about failing banks or The Fed or CMBS failures, take a moment to share it with us.