So i’ve been trying to talk to a friend about the #Fediverse lately and they seem to think that the US Government will crack down on it because Billionaires might get annoyed if users move away from normal Social Media to move across to the #Fediverse. What do you think about this?
@SamXavia I think your friend is a looney conspiracy theorist
@Jerry Yeah I’d think that to some days, I believe it might be because they don’t like change. Sure we all have to be sceptical about what the future of the #Fediverse might be but from what I’ve seen and experienced it could truly be the future of the internet.
I agree with you on that. It’s like you get the benefits of the Internet, but also the benefits of a single point of use.
Let’s look at a lot of game companies – they have their own forums, but they also have to have facebook et al because they want to have something they totally control but they also want something accessible easily. Imagine if they federated their forums, and suddenly all these little forums have a lot more reach and the people in charge of the projects can control them more than big tech would let them. Win/win/win. And we cut out a middle-man in the process.
@SJ0 I think that’s really the full idea of the Fediverse, You can do the same with Content Creators if they wish to control 100% of there channel they can host a peertube instance and release to the world from there. Sure we might need to work out how to run a server but i’m sure it will just get easier over time especially if there modern internet requires it a bit more than it used to.