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Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy (www.404media.co)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I haven't read the full article due to sign up paywall, but...

First, millions of small business owners and influencers who make a living on TikTok were left to beg their followers in TikTok’s last moments to follow them elsewhere in hopes of being able to continue their businesses on other corporate social media platforms. This had the effect of fracturing and destroying people’s audiences overnight, with one act of government.

How is decentralised social media going to help with this if the entire point of decentralisation is the opposite?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

On decentralized media (Mastodon at the very least), you can move your account and your subscribers to any other instance whenever you want. You move with your audience, and they'll barely notice any change, using the same app to keep following the same person automatically.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

And this is why I'm still on .ml there's not a way to move on Lemmy. Yet

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Luckily, there's normally little cost to switching Lemmy instances anyway. You can even probably take the same username and register on another instance, quickly rebuild your feed and that's mostly it.

As everything is connected and there's not much reason accumulating account age/karma/you name it, the loss is pretty minor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Oh cool, wasn't aware of that.