this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2024
947 points (99.0% liked)

A Boring Dystopia

9788 readers
185 users here now

Pictures, Videos, Articles showing just how boring it is to live in a dystopic society, or with signs of a dystopic society.

Rules (Subject to Change)

--Be a Decent Human Being

--Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article in your post title

--If a picture is just a screenshot of an article, link the article

--If a video's content isn't clear from title, write a short summary so people know what it's about.

--Posts must have something to do with the topic

--Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.

--No NSFW content

--Abide by the rules of lemmy.world

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The ideas leading to Lemmy go back at least a decade, that I can remember. There are many little things that people figured out when developing distributed federated social media networks of this type. It's a success story of collaboration over a long time with a shared goal of making Reddit and Twitter easy to replace with a superior product.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'm surprised that nobody has tried to turn Facebook into a distributed service or perhaps they have and I just haven't noticed.

I'm not really interested in a Twitter alternative as I never really used the original. But I would like a less shitty Facebook.

If somebody could basically just make Google plus again, but then actually let people use it, that would be great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Diaspora exists, but it’s small