Meta's forthcoming layoffs will reportedly eliminate about 10% of its workforce, even as Q1 profits hit $26.8 billion and AI spending rockets toward $145 billion this year alone.
The analogy I keep going back to is that of the shopping centre / mall. While it makes sense to go there for commerce and some light socializing, isn’t it sad if malls were the only places you socialized?
Luckily, other places exist! Both irl, to real malls, and online, to commercial platforms.
Just getting people to wake up to the fact that they’re choosing to stay on a corporate run platform is huge imho
This is an interesting analogy. So in your scenario Lemmy World is like a Pub (Public House) where any bludger can mosey on down to ‘warm their toes’ with a little socialising.
To get creative we’d name Lemmy World, The Lemmy Worlds End, an ever popular name for a pub.
My server, being Aussie zone, is like Mercury, a centimetre from the sun ;)
And your server is probably like Yosemite National Park or something.
Yeah, I like that frame. I think I’ll incorporate that into how I talk about the fediverse. Might need to polish my examples a bit more though. 😆
The analogy I keep going back to is that of the shopping centre / mall. While it makes sense to go there for commerce and some light socializing, isn’t it sad if malls were the only places you socialized?
Luckily, other places exist! Both irl, to real malls, and online, to commercial platforms.
Just getting people to wake up to the fact that they’re choosing to stay on a corporate run platform is huge imho
This is an interesting analogy. So in your scenario Lemmy World is like a Pub (Public House) where any bludger can mosey on down to ‘warm their toes’ with a little socialising.
To get creative we’d name Lemmy World, The Lemmy Worlds End, an ever popular name for a pub.
My server, being Aussie zone, is like Mercury, a centimetre from the sun ;)
And your server is probably like Yosemite National Park or something.
Yeah, I like that frame. I think I’ll incorporate that into how I talk about the fediverse. Might need to polish my examples a bit more though. 😆