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  • Then you wouldn’t have written a smiley face because it makes no sense there. But a full grown adult man-child has to lack self-awareness to think it’s normal to like a pony cartoon designed for literal toddlers. It’s incredibly creepy and makes you look like a pedo, on top of just being really stupid in these replies too.



















  • Hard to tell imo. Big tech has a lot of big advantages and disadvantages over us.

    Being centralized and heavily funded, it’s a lot easier for them to rapidly create/change new things, for better or for worse. It also means they do a lot of the testing for us. Mastodon/Lemmy formats are figured out from what we liked from proprietary platforms, then we kept the core that made it good. We also don’t need to make a worse user experience by worrying about monetization.

    We also have a lot less development, and I won’t even pretend that Mastodon or Lemmy are anywhere near well developed as Reddit/Twitter backends and other software. We simply don’t have the attention and funding to be anywhere near that level.

    I don’t think we’ll ever replace big tech, but I just hope we stay on a healthy trajectory where we are alongside them in popularity.