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Self hosting and federated social media. Take back control. Fuck the corporations.
This is why I'm a big fan of Lemmy and federated social media. It removes the monetization incentive, and it's obscure enough to barely be targeted by bots (so far). The remaining piece that is still an issue, in my opinion, is that we're still engulfed in the more modern internet culture of rage-bait, walling ourselves into our echo chambers, and occasionally seeing heavy-handed moderation.
I'll take two wins out of three any day though.
And because we aren't chasing profit, mass adoption, or clout here, we can get increasingly local and granular with our instances, and increasingly rigorous about who we let in. Since what we're chasing is real community, we have nothing to sell out for. And even if some instances do flip over to corpos, we can just defederate and welcome the inevitable influx of departing users.
The thing you really have to look out for in the future is "premium" instances or forks of Lemmy which are paywalled, and eventually locked down to a single instance. It just becomes the next Twitter. It's unlikely, but something to be wary of once the rest of the open internet is picked clean.
Shame that capital is without a doubt mining our genuine public communications for their wage depressing plagiarism machines, because it's not like you can get that from the old place anymore.