100%. It appears to me this new community is already serving the purpose of the old one!
Never thought about how this relates to net neutrality. Reddit was kind of becoming a "common carrier" for information, but as a centralized source it's in their interest to filter content for money's sake. Here in the fediverse the communities (and their data) are cloned but constantly updated across many independently owned servers. So no one server owner can ever really steer the discourse. We just need an official way to migrate a community in the case an instance goes down/stops meeting the needs of the community.
Exactly. Bring all that discussion and content over here, then we are actually in control of it. We can't expect anything to change when Reddit thinks there's no viable alternative.
I feel like that could lead to issues as well. The best way for the fediverse to work is users spread out across many small/medium instances.
Certainly feels like there's some 'ignorance is bliss' to it. Folks don't want to hear something is an ad because it takes away the illusion that their feed is in their control. And they don't want to feel gullible.
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