Barely a week in and we all get an awesome example of why decentralisation is a good thing

It’s a valid point. We can’t expect to be free of corporations and also expect people to maintain servers for free. Running a service costs someone somewhere, and running a massive service can’t easily work relying on just donations. I’d be happy to pay a small monthly/yearly fee to a nonprofit to guarantee an independent server, rather than to be a product to be traded.

Good, I almost took an interest in my family last week

I sank so so many hours into OW1 in the first two years… I barely touched OW2. Its a hollowed out, soulless imitation of the original. Fuck what Blizzard has become.

Wow it really IS like Twitter!

Same. What’s kinda nice is that unlike reddit there aren’t a hundred posts saying what you wanted to say already, so you don’t feel like you are being drowned out

That’s what I’m enjoying about it so far too. Content is sparse but that’s okay. I’m so tired of being marketed to, of being a product. These open source federated apps are janky and quieter, but they feel more real. These aren’t algorithms pushing engagement and outrage or ads every 10 seconds.

Control and money. They can serve more ads and harvest your data more easily if they control the platform