I am new to this whole Fediverse stuff. Trying to privatize my life and break away from big tech.

But I have to ask, why are you guys here and not on Reddirt? Where the population us much larger and its basically the same? It appears a few instances dominate this landscape anyway?

Its not like this is unchecked social media, they still moderate these places right? So what’s the benefit?

  • trashcan@sh.itjust.works
    15·
    2 months ago

    Can you expand on that?

    The fediverse is free. No shareholders.

    And by the way, it seems like upvoting and downvoting are pretty much worthless here right? Like there is no ranking system that permanently folllows you correct?

    I’d argue the only worth of votes is for posts and comments. Nothing good came from running aggregate “karma”.

    When someone contributes here it’s because they thought it worth sharing. Not that they knew a lot of people would push the happy button.