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Summary:

The whole post seems strange to me, what do you all think?

Additional context: https://fedihosting.foundation/lw-team/

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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    2 months ago

    There are at least 4 or 5 forums on /r/Redditalternatives which could definitely benefit from ActivityPub, but they don’t see the appeal.

    Ye I know, it’s fucking bizarre. Every 6 months, a new reddit alternative comes up which doesn’t have apub and expects to get user by sheer charm or smt.

    One of them even asks for people credit card information to avoid bots

    Lol, at an age where people are preconditioned to assume this means a subscription lock-in and the rest don’t even own one, I wonder how many people took them up on that offer.

    I also love the naivety of thinking $3 once will stop spammers. As if that wouldn’t be a perfectly cheap amount to pay to spam all their users if they had a lot of them. Twitter has $8 a pop and it’s innundated with spam

    • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOP
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      Ye I know, it’s fucking bizarre. Every 6 months, a new reddit alternative comes up which doesn’t have apub and expects to get user by sheer charm or smt.

      Well put. It’s a bit disheartening, because people put time and energy in those projects, that could be used to develop the existing open source platforms…

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        2 months ago

        Software devs and their “I can build this better from scratch in one weekend” mentality, mate…