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It won't enshittify in the strict Doctorow sense. But it will become shittier as more people who are currently plaguing Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and making those platforms terrible discover the Fediverse and come splatter their cowpats here. That's almost inevitable: it's happened to just about anything that ever became popular.
Incidentally, that's also a big part of the reason why it's supremely important to boycott Threads and not let it federate: the Fediverse needs to grow, but it doesn't need to grow with an influx of low-quality Facebook users.
Because the FOSS crowd is always so pleasant!
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It's not like the current group of users is perfect either. There's a lot of circlejerk opinions going around, and I've seen being get majorly downvoted for posting factual info that went against the "hivemind" opinion.
That's going to happen in any community. All you can do about it is checking your own assumptions and providing what you see as proof yourself.
Or calling them a bunch of idiots. That won't do any good, in a community sense, but it can be personally satisfying.
How to prevent those people from joining? I don’t think you can.
On the other hand, Reddit communities never got that terrible, right? Not all of them at least - it’s more that the platform turned to shit. Lemmy prevents that from happening. The concept of communities moderating themselves seems to work pretty well.
This pretty much. For as much as people are concerned that the "lack of UX" or the "discoverability" problems keeps people out, the important thing is it keeps normies out.
As I've seen before on some posts on the Fediverse discussing proprietary platforms, we all already know this. We saw FB went to shit as soon as it started allowing uneducated users.
What an incredibly elitist take. I personally think the fediverse should be welcome to everyone.
Do you choose your friends and the folks you hang out with? Of course you do. Why should it be any different in the communities you patronize?
I came here because I was tired of suffering the morons on traditional social media platforms. The Fediverse is not perfect - nothing ever is - and it has its fair share of undesirables too, but it's much better, and I'm not looking forward to the morons following me here and making things worse. They belong to Facebook and the likes, and they should stay there.