First: your comment appears to be a reply to them not me. I think that’s where the confusion came from.

Second: You seem to be conflating listening to ideas with supporting them.

Third: Blocking places with bad ideas doesn’t silence the people there or eliminate their ideas. It contributes to their isolation and echo chamber. Often more then yours. You in fact end up helping make them worse. Which of course is worse for everyone.

The former often feels like the later.
Even more so when you’re not used to it.

Building an echo chamber isn’t something done intentionally. Well… Sometimes it is.
It’s most often created by avoiding people you find annoying, toxic, etc. As long as you keep up that reasoning you eventually only interact with people who mostly agree with you. You’re blinding yourself to counter opinions. The definition of an echo chamber.

That’s not a logical proof. That’s the claim. That’s the hypothesis that would need to be studied.

According to Google, the idea of replacing current tools with open-source programs would not contribute to economic growth.

Is Google seriously arguing that the money these nations save can’t be added to their GDPs?
That’s what it sounds like. Or am I confused?

Matrix is the federated alternative.

Wait… It is Valentine’s Day!

Try it yourself.
Have someone switch between them for you.
Bet you can’t tell either.

I wouldn’t even know what people did.

But maybe…
Hide pieces of my body in the vents of Mar a lago.
Let them rot and stink up the place.

I need one hand free to collect the eggs

I’ve only got two hands. The basket is kind of necessary.

That’s a family plan for 6 people.
It works out to $1.50/person/month.

Sure, but if you make it mandatory to pay for anyone to use - it doesn’t grow.

People make lots of online buisness that grow just fine.

It’s just when people get used to a kind of thing being free, they feel like its impossible or stupid to pay for it. Even when those same people complain about how enshittification ruins everything, they refuse to directly pay instead.

Not even 100 subscribers.
But I was referring to the Fediverse in general. It won’t ever scale to a real global default social network, on the donations and the kindness of strangers.

If we don’t pay for it, then it’ll be paid for by adds.
Then we’re back to what we’re trying to get away from.
Communick or whatever, just pay. Even if it’s a donation.

I played with it. Had no problems. Worked fine.
Then realised it doesn’t do much for me personally. But it seems cool.

It’s not free. Servers and bandwidth cost money.
If you’re not paying, someone is being generous and paying for you.

No I don’t work there. But I have been paying for 2 years. And it’s the only way for the Fediverse to scale. Donations won’t get us to 100M users and beyond.

I’m happy with Communick. They offer Lemmy, Mastodon, Matrix, and Funkwhale for one subscription. Its worth paying for, because the Fediverse isn’t free.

As an X-ray tech, I’m disappointed there isn’t a single image.
It would be worth 50k words to see just one image this makes.

What’s the answer to Life the Universe and Everything?
Or How many roads must a man walk down?