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Can servers be ad supported? Like can I run a Google ad on my own instance?
We know how much we all love ads. Let's have more of them!
Paul Graham famously started to use Mastodon (but has not written anything there since last year). But the HN Status emergency “is HN down” channel is still only on Twitter. It used to be publicly readable at https://twitter.com/HNStatus >. But now, if HN was to go down, only logged-in Twitter users would be able to see why.
>if HN was to go down, only logged-in Twitter users would be able to see why That's probably close to 99% of HN users
Projection probably. I use my twitter account so seldom, I'm definitely in the 1%.
But then, I'm probably in the 0.5% who if HN happens to be down, will check back the following day instead of worrying.
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> This version of the Internet is starting to suck. :( The internet is fine. The highly centralized businesses that built themselves on the technology are meeting their inevitable end.
If anything, nature is healing. I’ve noticed at least 1 community return to forums due to all of this ( https://mholdschool.com/ ), and while unfortunately AFAIK there isn’t any good FLOSS software for it, it’s certainly a start.
Uggh. I only use twitter to follow critical (life-and-death) emergency broadcasts from our local fire department. Is there a viable alternative for them to use now that twitter is going to block most of our county’s residents?
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What is Lemmy?
https://join-lemmy.org/
This killed nitter. Fuck. I guess I'm done with Twitter. Reddit is in Eternal September. Twitter is login-walled. If HN is next, I'll probably be mostly done with the Internet. This version of the Internet is starting to suck. :(
I'm cautiously optimistic about Lemmy. Anyone can spin up an instance, so it's decentralized, but instances are connected, so there's community. It may still be rough around the edges, but to me it feels like the spirit of the old phpBB forums combined with almost 20 years of lessons learned from Reddit.
Matrix does better as the rooms are decentalized so can continue even if the creating server drops offline. But user accounts are still only federated.
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Why are centralized businesses doomed to fail? It’s been the primary organizational mode for the last 10,000 years.
Pressure to squeeze out profits continously until there’s nothing but a husk left.
How would smaller companies do better?
Taking into consideration how much Spez thinks of himself as a Musk, we should be expecting Reddit to implement the same feature soon. We are just sitting by the sideline watching as the internet we all loved slowly dies in the hands of greedy corporations. This is truly a sad state of affairs.
The Internet I loved was full of random forums and text websites. If anything, I'm rejoicing and hoping this will mean less centralized forums. Y'all realize you can just not use reddit and Twitter right? You can host your own forum on the Internet
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Which government agency/city council exclusively uses such services for updates?
It's quite common in Nova Scotia. During the mass shooting, emergency alerts were sent out exclusively via Twitter: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/rcmp-twitter-aler...