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Consumers are hungry for a new way of social networking, where trust and safety are paramount and power isn't centralized with a Big Tech CEO in charge...

"the company looked at the history of social media over the past decade and didn’t like what it saw… existing companies that are only model motivated by profit and just insane user growth, and are willing to tolerate and amplify really toxic content because it looks like engagement… "

  • possibly a cat@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    A fork can work but only if there’s actually a decent population willing to adopt the fork, and of course someone willing to make that fork (and capable of it). A fork made by a small group of people upset by one person’s 7-day ban is not going to become name brand unless they get other stakeholders onboard.

    • spaduf@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      As I see it, there are three major ways a fork could gain significant standing among the community:

      • They could get features out faster. Scaled sort would’ve been absolutely pivotal during a migrationary wave, as it would have allowed small communities to gain exposure on the front page in a far more natural and organic way. Currently new communities are largely dependent on the community spotlight subs and there’s not a whole lot of ways to actually gain momentum after that initial posting.
      • They could improve performance and appeal to admins. The current cost of hosting Lemmy is fairly bloated from my understanding.
      • They could invest in moderation. Beehaw would certainly be interested.

      I honestly think any one of these is easily manageable by a handful of people in off time. Other parts of the fediverse of similar size are chock full of forks.