Yeah blocking words like reddit, lemmy, fediverse and threads could probably give you more original content.
Blocking political buzzwords would be probably great for mental health reasons.
The Internet is a mistake.
Would be funny, if major instances are choosing option 5, making many communities divided and useless, right before Meta announces, that they don't plan on federating with Lemmy instances. And that Threads will only federate with Tumblr lol
Seriously tho, how will Threads impact Lemmy anyways? They don't have communities there, right? Their posts will probably not show up here regardless of federated or defederated, if I understand correctly.
Japan seems to be a hellscape of mental health problems honestly.
Sad honestly. These women are the definition of being based tho. They know exactly what stepping out of line will do them, but do it anyways.
indoctrinate her with cute spider propaganda
The Swiss Alps will protect his online data.
As long as you point towards the easiest way to join the fediverse first, while only "selling" federation as a feature for power users and people who are genuinely interested, then it doesn't really matter how complicated the fediverse really is.
If your mom wants you to make her an email account, you don't explain her how the entire mail system works, along with its history and while reciting a Richard Stallman manifesto about FOSS philosophy. You also don't send her a link with 100 different email service providers, that all have their own small advantages or disadvantages, while also explaining her how to create her own mail service.
No, you just make her a Gmail account.
I think the official Mastodon app does a great job at simplifying on how to join mastodon. You have a big blue button that lets you join mastodon.social by default, while a smaller grey button is for users, that want another instance. I'm sure you could simplify this even more, but this is a great beginning.
It would be worse than the burning of the library of Alexandria. So much data stored on Youtube, Gdrive, Google Photos, Gmail etc etc etc would be lost forever, without backups for probably most of it.
The Internet Archive and some US agency (I think it was the NSA) have backups for a lot of the public-facing data. But lots of data would simply be lost media forever as well.
I wonder tho, if some artworks that have been saved only on Google servers, will live on solely through AI algorithms, that have included these in their datasets.
Google will never die, at least not all at once. If Google were to die sometime in the future, it would die a very slow death, with all there side-businesses being slowly sold off one by one. Plenty of time to switch to alternatives and to save all your important data (which you should probably do always regardless)
That fact that social media babies have already grown up, horrifies me as well. I feel so old just reading this headline...
I think the admin pyarra mentioned, that they had to restart the server at least once a day, otherwise the RAM would get too full. Maybe they had no time to do that?
Maybe they have faced some kind of mental health crisis, that made them abandon everything? Maybe they faced huge financial problems or the Irish IRS flatlined all his bank accounts? They seemed fine yesterday, so who knows.
It is weird tho, that the vlemmy site still kind of works, even if the connection is extremely slow and unstable.
Same thing happened with Mastodon to an extent. Twitter migrants want a platform that is at least as "good" as Twitter.
Mastodon has at least as many features as Twitter, but almost no important users to follow.
Threads has a lot more important users, but far less features than Twitter.
Though Mastodon's key advantage over Threads, is the fact that people are more willing to "believe" in the Mastodon project. Mastodon had no high-profile controversy yet. It is FOSS, the people are friendly and it is slowly growing organically with a few growth spurts here and there.
Meta Threads has the same image problems as Twitter. Zucc and Musk are probably equally controversial figures. I imagine people mostly joined Threads because of FOMO and group-think. There is no reason for most of them to use it over Twitter.
In the end tho, I don't see Twitter being de-throned by either of these platforms.