It's about time that people understood that "Everything on the internet lasts forever" is a falsehood formed from a Web 2.0 mindset. Now those big Web 2.0 sites everyone thought would dominate the internet forever are dying, and the only thing saving what was on those websites (the internet archive) is being constantly sued by greedy publishers.

TL;DR: The lead dev is German and had no idea at the time that toot was American slang for farting, he thought it was just an elephant/mastodon noise.

What we want is our shit in one place, without one asshole controlling what we see. Is that really such an impossible dream?

To a small extent, yes. I kindof felt that when I discovered mastodon 5 years back, but it's still not quite the same. Back then, the internet was a new adventure. Every website was kindof shitty, but they all had their own unique personalities based on who made them. The internet's potential was unknown. The fediverse just feels like more of the same bland social media, but everything is messier and hard to find.

I say that, but Lemmy just makes me realize how much I took reddit for granted. Forums are nice, but it was great to have a place where at least 1/5th of the english speaking population congregated to discuss the issues of our time. I don't think we will get that on the fediverse.

I want to believe in the fediverse, but it REALLY needs to be ironed out and made easier to use.

This is exactly why I never pick iphones, because a good chunk of the time you miss out on all the niche things you can do on a smartphone.

Would be wonderful if the FCC did their fucking job for once and banned data caps. Companies like Mediacom abuse the fuck out of them

This is usually the source of people's annoyance with me. I also struggle to comprehend what people say half the time.

I think the issue is more on lack of innovation. People ditched Skype for discord because Discord had many more features and wasn't an unusable mess like Skype was in the mid 2010s. Lemmy is literally just reddit with a few more features.

Who would believe a story like this?