They signaled for two more quarter point increases this year apparently - so not really sure what to think.

Are there any sites in the Fediverse written in .net? I’d like to contribute to these sites, but I haven’t touched PHP in over a decade.

I think awards might be a good source of revenue though?

This speaks to how bad Google has gotten IMO - I do it too.

I’m not convinced you need corporate money though. I think grants/user contributions (add the awards concept like Reddit has?) can get you pretty far a la Wikipedia.

I don’t want corporate social media full stop. As soon as there is a profit motive things will always slowly decay.

I just hope it’s viable to survive on grants/donors a la Wikipedia. Add some “awards” like on reddit, and that should help as well.

Yeah, the odd hangs are a little iffy (subscribing and upvoting). Though I actually like the UI so far since it’s very clean. If I care enough I could always implement my own custom CSS using the “Stylus” extension in chrome/edge.

I tend to agree. Just not sure comparing Lemmy to Mastodon is fair, since they seems like different platforms (eg. Reddit vs. Twitter).

Well that’s cool as hell - thanks for the info.

I just hope this is the start of an internet renaissance with less corporate control.

Yeah only way I see it working is if it’s more of a peer to peer / torrenting concept. As in while you use it, you are “seeding” other videos / content as well.

Sucks that the UI doesn’t auto-link that for you.

My hope is that things like Chat GPT can now become that source. I can only assume all those historical posts were used as training data.

I mean it seems so obvious in retrospect I suppose. I hope we’re looking a the start of a real renascence for the internet, away from corporate overlords.