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They stole the internet from the people and we have to take it back (media.kbin.social)

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[–] GataZapata@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

While I think you are right and there are surely factors worth investigating, I cannot shake the feeling that 'money for ads' is a really big one.

To the point: I cannot htelp but notice that the bigger services place emphasis on you presenting, ourself, while small decentralized ones place more import on anonimity. I think there's a part in all or most people that wants to present themselves and be lauded among peers. This is to me why platforms with photo capability like fb and insta took off. Also reddit was trying to gravitate more and more towards this with following profiles and bla

[–] BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's definitely a pretty important distinction, and I'm definitely interested to see if there'll ever be a federate platform that does emphasize real identities. Growing that would be very hard given the network effects, but TikTok etc show that it is possible, at least.

[–] discodoubloon@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I think PixelFed is going in this direction if I’m not mistaken. Also to your points and which I keep bringing up… you can have both anonymous and Real identities interacting directly with each other here. Of course other social media sites can do this somewhat but they all encourage you to give them as much info as possible.